Nothing explains the world more elegantly than a map. In that spirit, we've compiled the 15 most excellent, unusual, and just cool maps that we've recently come across.. They cover all the bases ...

When "Transit Maps of the World" by transport historian Mark Ovenden was first published in 2007, it attracted a cult following of readers drawn to the collection of historic and current maps of ...

Langscape is an interactive map of the locations of 6400 of the world's languages. The map lets you easily view detailed information about each language and listen to sound recordings of them. It ...

As scientists try to understand how the world might change in the next few decades, history might have a clue or two. A digital map of the Earth goes back 750 million years — just a fraction o… ...

Here's a cool map from McKinsey by way of ZeroHedge. It shows the economic center of the world, from 1 AD to the present day. It was a fairly simple process creating it: researchers took each ...