The interactive digital special project "Mercator. It’s a Flat, Flat World" tells the story of a famous map, published in 1569 by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator. We describe the...

What if Earth’s terrain was created by nighttime lights? This 3D web mapping experiment sheds some light on the question with a complete resculpting of our planet's surface. Human light...

This unique interactive map allows you to explore and compare fields and crops in Europe and the USA. The entrant has supplied multiple files for this work: [1] [2] 

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has made possible the expansion the mapping to previously unmapped areas, thanks to technological advancements such as Web 2.0 and satellite imagery....