Ted Florence is ready for his family trip to Botswana. He has looked up his hotel on Google Maps and downloaded a digital map of the country to his phone. He has also packed a large paper map. “I ...

More than half a million Missouri highway maps rolled off the presses this year, proof that paper maps still have a purpose in the digital era. Despite the widespread reliance on digital GPS devices, ...

Maps have always been essential tools for making sense of the world around us. From hand-drawn sketches to today’s digital systems, they visualize space, plan movement and understand places. But the ...

There are a two schools of thought when it comes to maps and navigation. Low-tech, old-school cartographers stick to paper maps because of their reliability and simplicity, while the geeky brainiac ...

I love road maps, even in this digital, satellite GPS age. I can sit at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee and lose myself in a map. A good one makes me feel like a kid again with my entire life ...

Even if everything navigation is pointing in the direction of GPS, you'll never tear some folks away from their paper maps. In Northern New Jersey, Stephanie Kivett Ohnegian keeps an atlas in her car ...

MIT Press provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Ted Florence is ready for his family trip to Botswana. He has looked up his hotel on Google Maps and downloaded a digital map of the ...