In his day job as staff cartographer at UC Berkeley, Darin Jensen makes maps for other people. When professors need a map for teaching a class or submitting a research paper to a journal, he's their ...

This year at theOpen Source Geospatial Foundation‘s annual meeting, mappers from around the world have entered their work in a contest. A panel of map experts will select the winners in the categories ...

I love maps. There's something about cartography that lends itself to visualizing much more than land and geography. I've previously looked at how the London tube map was appropriated as a visual ...

Created by the mastermind behind ‘Very Useful Maps’, these images are not your regular markers of geographic areas.

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. Inuit hunter Silas Sandgreen ...