Maria Stenzel, National Geographic Stock With his ships, his compass and sextant, and his mandate from his king, Cook too leveraged his smarts and curiosity to bring home a map of a world ...

Directing a team of artists, Desceliers produced the illustrated, annotated map, full of geographic features both real and imagined. “It’s one of the most beautiful maps to have survived from ...

The project is a unique collaboration between the two departments to unlock and preserve geographic information collected since 1947. In addition to creating digital copies, Library map ...

You’re likely to have problems as it just wants to bend. That’s the exact challenge facing map makers. How do you draw something like a sphere on a rectangle? They have to compromise.