In his day job as staff cartographer at UC Berkeley, Darin Jensen makes maps for other people. When professors need a map for teaching a class or submitting a research paper to a journal, he's their ...

Walter W. Ristow learned to drive by skidding his family's Model T across the frozen lakes of Wisconsin and later drove through every state in the Lower 48. No one can remember a single time he got ...

Last July, the National Geographic Society released its first comprehensive map of Cuba in more than 100 years. The new, detailed map includes two new Cuban states and is worthy of recognition in its ...

If you were to drop Dave Imus anywhere in the United States, he could likely point out something unique in the landscape around him. This winding road through flat farmland, 30 miles outside of Eugene ...

After 40 years of work, the History of Cartography project is coming to a close. But with evolving modern technology and cultural perceptions about maps, UW researchers claim cartographers’ work is ...

Swiss cartographer Arne Rohweder has produced an updated map of central Baghdad, featuring palaces and buildings that were bombed or looted during the war. His latest version also marks restricted ...

Alexander Murphy recalls visiting a Guatemala museum some years ago and gazing up at a huge relief map of the country. Something about the borders struck the University of Oregon geography professor ...