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Marinus of Tyre, the First Geographer to Include China in Roman Maps and Invent the Term “Antarctic”
At a time when knowledge of the world was fragmented and based on travelers’ and merchants’ accounts, one man set out to ...
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Why Was California Depicted As An Island For Centuries?
It wasn't only Antonia de la Ascensión who made this strange error. Juan de Iturbe, who explored parts of California in 1615, ...
For Google Maps Users in U.S., It’s Now the Gulf of America
People in Mexico will still see the name Gulf of Mexico, with international users seeing both names, Google said. The change ...
A wealth of evidence: Machine learning approach leads to a 'living systematic map' of climate policy research
Research on climate policy is growing exponentially. Of the approximately 85,000 individual studies ever published on policy ...
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The complicated business of changing digital map names and boundaries
Google says it will comply with President Trump's order to change the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America," on Google ...
3 Controversial Maps From History
Humans have been making maps for as long as they’ve been exploring the Earth. Some of their cartographic maps went on to ...
India Today21h
William Playfair, the forgotten genius behind bar graphs and pie charts
William Playfair, the father of data visualisation, changed the way we understand information. His bar graphs, pie charts, ...