It is not always possible to draw objects, such as a building, using the real-life measurements, as they are too big or in other cases, too small. Instead, a scale drawing is used to recreate ...

There's a lot of space in space. That's the point hammered in by this huge to-scale map of the solar system, If The Moon Were Only 1 Pixel, created by the interactive designer Josh Worth. The map is ...

The Google Maps app will display a dynamic scale every time you zoom in or out of a map. Here you will learn to display the scale bar in Google Maps for Android permanently. To always show the scale ...

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The USGS Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, Arizona recently released a series of geologic Martian maps that could all be impactful to future missions to the Red Planet. Does size matter? In ...

All maps are part fiction. Cartographers choose which information to include and which to reject, which relationships to focus on and which to ignore. In the case of maps for bus and train systems, ...

South Korea is nearing a decision on whether to allow Google and Apple to export high-resolution geographic map data to servers outside the country. The detailed maps, which use a 1:5,000 scale, would ...