iOS: Earlier this year, Google teamed up with Nintendo to turn Google Maps into Mario Kart, replacing the app’s usual location icon with a fist-bumping plumber riding a red go-kart. The ...

But, in reality, three Canadas would comfortably fit inside Africa. Our world map is wildly misleading. It’s all down to the European cartographer Geert de Kremer, better known as Mercator ...

One interesting UI change may have gone unnoticed though. Google Maps has made an adjustment to the shared location user icon. Shared locations has been a huge part of Google Maps for a good while ...

This is one of those why-haven’t-we-had-this-all-along kind of updates, but Google Maps has just launched the ability to tag your favorite locations with themed icons. Previously, everything was ...

More than 24 million people in southern Africa face hunger, malnutrition and water scarcity due to drought and floods, an aid group has warned, as experts say the situation risks spiraling into ...

A new kind of world map (above) has been developed that shows ... greatly distorts the relative areas of land masses. It makes Africa look tiny, and Greenland and Russia appear huge.

Given the recent debate we drew on this map from Stratfor to highlight Chinese investments offers in Africa since 2010. From Stratfor: "While China has proposed $750 million for agriculture and ...