Finding your way around an unfamiliarbuilding can be tricky for anyone, but its far more difficult forpeople with visual impairments. A pair of researchers at Rutgers University School of ...

To the untrained eye, the following colorful images might look like art, but they’re actually something unexpected: science. These are maps of metals such as titanium, nickel, and steel created using ...

The Joseph Kohn Training Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey, is a state-funded facility that teaches vocational skills to the blind and visually impaired. Old wooden maps help students navigate the ...

What do the military, digital mapping, and the school system have in common? The answer can be found in a new Kickstarter project that’s hoping to shake up classroom learning with the help of 3D ...

Vintage trail maps make great wall decor for skiers. But what about your coffee table? One member of the skiing-specific subreddit r/skiing is making three-dimensional art pieces that should do the ...

Archie Archambault was a philosophy major who moved to Portland, Ore., in 2009 after college and found himself getting lost. For all their practical uses, Google maps didn’t seem to really give him a ...

A Redditor known for their 3D printed ski area maps has added a new mountain to their collection: Whistler Blackcomb, British Columbia. The map depicts Whistler, Blackcomb, the base villages, and even ...

Researchers from the Higher Technical School of Engineering (ETSI) of the University of Seville have published a study of a series of hand-drawn maps that copied the maps printed in the first days of ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A rare book containing what is believed to be the world's first printed maps is on display at the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota. The James Ford Bell Trust ...

The growth in use of smartphones, navigational units and other GPS technology, and the pursuit of government efficiency likely will result in fewer Iowa roads maps. The Iowa House voted Tuesday to ...

Iowa transportation officials say they plan to print state road maps just once every two years.The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier newspaper reports the state Department of Transportation will switch ...

From the start of the colonization, the Spanish Crown needed to know and represent the overseas territories under its control. In the last third of the sixteenth century, surveys were carried on to ...