Google Maps is an essential traveling companion thanks to its wealth of useful features. It stores a history of everything you searched and places you visited (if you turned on location data). This ...

Maps, says Great Maps author and historian Jerry Brotton, are more than a geographic object, a tool to get us from point A to B. From the ancient Greeks to Google Earth, all human cultures have had an ...

The map showing the Elder's course was prepared using maps published by the United States Coast Survey and the U. S. Geological Survey. Geographer Henry Gannett traced the route onto an existing ...

Google is rolling out significant changes to its Maps Timeline feature, which tracks your location history. As part of this update, you will soon receive notifications that your Timeline data will be ...

A Bible from 1525 with an incorrect map changed the way Europe imagined borders and territories for centuries.

Five centuries ago, a single misprinted image in a German Bible quietly rewired how Europeans pictured the world and their place in it. The 1525 map of the Holy Land, reversed like a mirror image, was ...

Humans have been making maps for as long as they’ve been exploring the Earth. Some of their cartographic maps went on to change the world—but other maps wound up stirring up quite a bit of drama. We ...

Ever wondered what your hometown looked like centuries ago? Thanks to a hidden feature in Google Earth, you can now step back ...

A painting of the library in the house of Domitian on the Palatine. Rome's long history is explored in a new illustrated book on archaeology and history. Wikimedia Commons Rome wasn’t built in a day, ...

On the first of five visits to Special Collections & Archives this semester, first-year students in the seminar Maps, Territory, and Power in Asia leaned over large tables to peer at maps of the ...

You can disable Google Maps' Timeline history of where you've gone. You can also disable Google Maps from tracking your travels in the future through the app's settings. Google Maps may be collecting ...

Originals and photocopies of historic Erie Canal maps are spread across Steven Talbot's workstation. Using a combination of maps ranging from 1835 to the early 19th century, Talbot created the first ...