The Adorable Maps Today’s Cartographers Made as Kids. Here’s how eight mapmakers got their start, growing from youthful enthusiasts into successful professionals.

Right now, your kids probably aren’t exploring like they were a few months ago. So give them another option: Have them explore the world by making maps. Maps show more than how to get from Point ...

Well you're in luck, because the cartographers at National Geographic have adapted our World for Kids and United States for Kids maps to create versions that you can print, assemble, and color at ...

And like most kids, we loved the maps that arrived tucked into issues of National Geographic. So writing a map blog for National Geographic is pretty much our dream job. Here we will explore the ...

If you want to inspire your kids to travel, then reading map books is a great way for kids to visualise how big and diverse ...

The theme for the contest this year was “We Love Maps,” which elicited lots of hearts, including one that used a heart-shaped map projection by 12-year-old Colegio Arturo Soria of Spain.

National Geographic Maps developed the Topographic Map Guide booklet format, initially for long distance trails, including this series for the Pacific Crest Trail, which runs 2,650 miles (4,265 ...

These Amazing Maps Show How Kids See Their Place in the World. Children from 38 countries submitted some impressive entries for a competition judged by the International Cartographic Association.

Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we think about places. But these mental maps aren’t necessarily reliable. In fact, many of the maps in our heads share ...

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas ...

We’ve been in touch with train buff, map-lover, and Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society Mark Ovenden to learn more about his latest book Railway Maps of the World. Please tell us a bit about ...

Our maps have long been known for their distinctive typefaces, but few outside the Society know of the history that lies behind them. National Geographic’s Cartographic Typefaces ...