At Newcastle University in England, a lecturer in architecture has taken to a particularly odd moonlighting job to bolster his pitifully miserly research funding: Making beautiful maps of the internet ...

Visualizing the internet is almost as difficult as ignoring trolls, but that didn’t stop Jay Jason Simons from having a damn good try. The result is this beautiful and insanely detailed map.

Maps of our cities have been around since the 15th century, but today's merge technology and art like never before One of the challenges facing urban scholars and planners is that their ‘lab’ is the ...

Clambering in the back of a van or station wagon and driving with your folks to your nearest national park used to be a summer tradition. Certainly, it was for Matt Holly, who grew up to be a national ...

Robert Altbauer calls himself a “fantasy cartographer”. If maps of places that don’t actually exist are your fetish, then Robert is your man. Over the years Altbauer has created maps for video game ...

World map of color coded density of vertebrate species. Photo: Jenkins et al Conservationists constantly warn that the planet’s biodiversity is in crisis mode, but the world is a big place. In order ...