The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

Open-world games use geographic technology for stunning, realistic maps of real locations globally. True Crime: Streets of LA was one of the first to recreate a real-world city accurately in an ...

A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current ...

You know how Microsoft Flight Simulator uses real-world map data to let you fly anywhere you want in the entire world? Well, what if a farming game did that, but instead of flying over the map you ...

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

Mr. MARK NEWMAN (Co-author, "The Atlas of the Real World"): Maps can be misleading, absolutely. Your standard map of the world makes the North Pole look huge and the equator look very small.

Niantic wants to build a richer 3D map of the world, and it’ll use its 2021 acquisition of Scaniverse to do that.