These immersive open-world games feature maps derived from and inspired by real locations, offering detailed and interactive experiences.

Assassin’s Creed Origins is set in Ptolemaic Egypt, but its recreation is rooted in real geography. The Nile River, the ...

These immersive open-world games feature maps derived from and inspired by real locations, offering detailed and interactive experiences.

Games Sim This farming sim lets you plant crops anywhere you want on a real-world map, so I patriotically grew corn and raised sheep under the Statue of Liberty Features ...

Pokémon Go and other games that use real-world maps are all the rage, but there's a catch: they typically depend on semi-closed map frameworks that weren't intended for gaming, forcing developers ...

Go behind the scenes of a new site based in Google Maps that combines geography, technology, and literature into a crowdsourced map of real locations from novels.

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it seem smaller.