On the Map author Simon Garfield speaks with NPR's Steve Inskeep about the history of maps, how they can be used as political tools, and how GPS and modern mapping applications are changing the ...

And then we have people making maps for the sheer fun of it. In that category is Simon Schuetz’s Kickstarter project to create a global “bucket list” map, filling in the borders of the world ...

Demographer Simon Kuestenmacher has created a life expectancy world map It leaves large gaps where people are more likely to die before they reach age 80 Northern Territory is only part of ...

In “On the Map,” Simon Garfield delves into the wonders of map making.

Some maps could even get you killed. Elizabeth I decreed that the route of Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the world (and its untapped riches) remain secret – and it was nine years before a ...

On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks Simon Garfield. Gotham, $27.50 (448p) ISBN 978-1-592-40779-8 ...

Paperback: On the Map: why the world looks the way it does by Simon Garfield (Profile, £9.99) William Leith 26 September 2013 Simon Garfield has a gift for making us really think about things.