Cartographers explain how the Equal Earth projection shows Africa’s true relative size and why the world map we use matters.

A team of researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has developed a new instrument designed to eliminate blind spots between lines of lidar data on Earth's surface. Built with support ...

Google Earth and animated unit markers recreate a scenario based on Soviet invasion plans. The map follows estimated troop ...

The video uses Google Earth to follow the Israeli campaign in Lebanon day by day. Captions note continued fighting, ...

Global rainfall maps are built from observations collected by multiple satellites, but they have an important limitation. The ...

Aerial footage of residential properties in Germany may not be published Earth and Google Maps if the owner objects, a German court has ruled, siding with an owner who sued the US internet ...

The Earth has no top or bottomPlease picture a world map.Russia and Canada are at the top, while Australia and Antarctica are ...

A rainy afternoon can mean wet shoes, canceled plans, or a garden that finally gets some water. When the rain keeps coming, ...

Disaster preparedness, the spread of infectious diseases, and finding buildings suitable for solar power generation. These ...

Want to drive around your hometown? You can generate a map of it. Want to explore the roads around a racetrack on the other ...

The Mercator projection, left, distorts the relative size of landmasses, particularly towards the poles. The Equal Earth ...

A court in Hesse upheld a Frankfurt resident’s lawsuit against Google over aerial images of his property, finding that ...