14 extraordinary photos show the importance of freshwater habitats
As the magnitude of water shortage issues arise globally, National Geographic Explorers along with the World Freshwater ...
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This New World Map Shows Just How Inaccurate Every Map You’ve Ever Seen Is
An accurate world map is something that has evaded cartographers ... In a study released in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science, cartographer Tom Patterson and his ...
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A Map Fit for a King Shows the World of 1550
This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... He decided that a magnificent gift—a lavish map of the world—might maneuver him into the new king’s good ...
Bringing The World Into Perspective With 3D Geospatial Data
From GPS navigation systems to images of current events taking place on the other side of the planet, the world in 3D is ...
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Gulf of Mexico or Gulf of America? Google Maps and contentious geography
Everyone in the rest of the world sees ... that names of geographical sites that people use in conversations might not always be reflected in institutionally produced maps.