Around 1930, an employee with the U.S. Geological Survey simply took a cutout of the map of North America, and balanced it on the top of a pin. Not the most sophisticated method, perhaps, but for ...

One reason mapmakers may have done this is to hide their ignorance, says Van Duzer. When the Dutch mapmaker Pieter van den Keere made a world map in 1611 (see above), the interior of North America ...

In 1928, a U.S. Geological Survey mathematician determined the geographic center of North America by balancing a cardboard cutout of the continent with a pin stuck through it on his finger ...

All maps tell stories, but Canadian Geographic Education’s latest map is especially unique not because of what’s in it, but rather what it’s made of.The new classroom map of Canada and North America ...