Maps don’t always tell the truth. Maybe you already knew this. Maybe, like me, you’ve ended up in the sort of road-to-nowhere predicament that only a willfully oblivious reliance on Google Maps can ...

Maps lie because they simplify. They lie in different ways, to show certain realities, and electoral maps are no different. In places where there are few people, hundreds of square miles turn red or ...

World map with the British Empire highlighted in red, Mercator projection. Author: Colomb, J.C.R. Publisher: MacClure & Co. Date: 1886. Location: Great Britain. BY Ruben Pater In November 2014, the ...

Maps distort reality because the Earth is a three-dimensional sphere, and any attempt to represent it on a flat surface requires compromise. It's like trying to make a rectangle out of an orange peel.

A few days ago, “Geographic Travels with Catholicgauze” had a great post about the size of the crowd at Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity“. It seems that conservatives have been passing around an ...