15 Maps That Will Change How You See The World

Perspective is everything, but these curious maps might give a whole new approach to the weird and wonderful world that we ...
Condé Nast Traveler

How Names on Maps Get Changed—and Who Gets to Decide

On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness” instructing the US Board on Geographic Names (BGN), a federal body ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Google to change map names for Gulf of Mexico and Denali when US updates them based on Trump order

Google says it will take its cue from the U.S. government if it has to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali on its maps. The company said Monday that it will only make changes when the ...
Greek Reporter

How Ancient Greeks Invented the World Map We Use Today

Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...
Marketplace

The complicated business of changing digital map names and boundaries

Geography has been part of President Trump’s agenda. His first day on the job, he signed an executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and Denali, the highest peak ...