Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.

Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions ...

Geography gives us an incredible lens through which to see the world. While we often think of maps in terms of information that already exists in the spatial domain, such as building addresses or GPS ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. The world’s news media offers an incredibly rich geographic lens through ...

A common perception of geography is that it mainly involves the memorization of capitals, rivers and countries, but in the CSUN geography department, students and faculty view the discipline in a ...

Jack Dangermond started his working life at his parents’ plant nursery in Redlands. Now, Forbes says, he’s a billionaire. Dangermond is founder and president of Esri, one of the world’s leading ...

These maps detailed the Great Mongolian Road, which included key settlements and important water sources.

National Geographic cartographers fill a key map gap on the North American Continental Divide and pay tribute to the Father of American Mapmaking A portion of the Trails Illustrated Wind River Range ...

"I was a landscape architect who turned to a life of crime," jokes Robert Cheetham, founder of Azavea, a software development and research firm based in Philadelphia. Fourteen years ago, he was one of ...

Use this page to see how the video clips map to the Geography objectives of the National Curriculum for England at Key Stages 1 and 2. The individual objectives are listed on the left, with the ...