Machine-learning project will analyse 1,000 years of maps and manuscripts from the floating city's golden age.

No nation can claim chess as its own. It is a truly global game. Yet as this map shows, it too has a history, and a geography.

Dozens of vessels that brought gold-crazed prospectors to the city in the 19th century still lie beneath the streets.

Landmarks on Venus are named after famous women. This topographic map introduces the woman behind each name.

The historical map collection has over 76,000 maps and images online. The collection includes rare 16th through 21st century maps of America, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific and the World. Popular collection categories are celestial, antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall & case, children’s, and manuscript maps...

This is what a melting pot looks like.

Google Maps is one of the company's most popular services, but when it comes to bringing in revenue, Maps is not pulling its weight. That's by design — Google admits it has been slow to monetize the app. "We take a long term view," Google CEO Sundar Pichai told a Wall Street analyst who inquired about potential plans to turn Maps into a more significant moneymaker during the company's Q1 earnings call on Thursday.

The New Inquiry is pleased to announce the launch of White Collar Crime Risk Zones, a predictive policing application that targets white collar crime. View the project online here. By Sam Lavigne, Francis Tseng and Brian Clifton.

The New York Public Library's NYC Space/Time Directory is a "digital time-travel service" for their collections of maps and geospatial data.

An interactive historical photo map allows viewers to experience the cataclysm from a neighborhood-level perspective.

Piris Reis map

Wal-Mart is Everywhere--and that's profoundly depressing.

Gen. George B. McClellan’s amphibious invasion of the Virginia Peninsula in March and April 1862 involved one of the great logistical achievements of the Civil War....But McClellan did not appreciate the land of the Peninsula...

The science is clear, the future is not

Most people think that time zones are just stripes of land spreading from the North Pole to the South Pole at regular intervals, but the reality is much more complicated. Time zones usually follow

Google's Street View added one of the world's largest boiling lava lakes in the Marum crater, an active volcano on the Vanuatuan island of Ambrym.

Overlay map of any country or US state with map of any other

It was originally built in 1457.

Educational diagrams of scientific discoveries, from the moon's surface to the longest rivers.

Topographic Maps of Eastern Europe offers a collection of small and large scale historical maps of the lands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Pale of Jewish Settlement in late Tsarist Russia.