In May 2013, Google's vice president took to stage and announced that Google was aiming to build "a perfect map of the world". An honourable notion with almost utopian connotations -- and why ...

ST. THOMAS — Heads up, Virgin Islands. Google Maps has arrived. Bob Perkins, a subcontractor for Google Maps who has worked to map Kansas City and Denver, is living on a sailboat off the east end of ...

For Samantha Cortese, adding texture to the continents is the most satisfying part of painting a map masterpiece for a client’s home. Cortese has been interested in paper maps since she was a kid ...

The philosopher Alfred Korzybski’s maxim, “The map is not the territory”, provides a profound framework for understanding the Nigerian experience. It reminds us that our models of reality—our beliefs, ...

Future historians may very well remember the past year, since August 2019, as a time when South Asia’s cartographic confabulations reached a new peak, threatening to spill over on the ground as ...

I read an interesting piece the other day addressing Korzybski’s (1931) concept, ‘the map is not the territory’ and its implications in realms like commerce. In a particularly simplified manner (oh, ...