GPS navigation systems are an essential fixture in most cars today, but when technology fails, many people still turn to print maps. That’s helping a local spin-off company from University of ...

Cartography has evolved from the traditional craft of hand‐drawing maps to a data‐intensive, computer‐aided discipline that underpins modern geographic information systems (GIS). This transformation ...

Cartography is the new code. Increasingly, everything from your takeout delivery to your UberPool route is orchestrated not just by engineers but by cartographers. Between 2007 and 2015, the number of ...

Some recent developments in the theory and practice of cybercartography: applications in indigenous mapping: an introduction / D.R. Fraser Taylor -- From cybercartography to the paradigm of ...

Since the mid-nineteenth century, maps have helped elucidate the deadly mysteries of diseases like cholera and yellow fever. Yet today's global mapping of infectious diseases is considerably ...

Tactile Mapping: Cartography for People with Visual Impairments Includes Fresh Insights into Design and Methods for Presenting Geographic Information Accessibly Tactile maps offer greater independence ...

Philip Steinberg has received funding from the International Council for Canadian Studies, the US National Science Foundation, the European Commission, and the Leverhulme Trust that pertains to this ...

"In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate ...