So clever folks out there rolled up their sleeves and got to work, making visual depictions of data that help us better understand the world. This online group shares various cool and interesting maps ...

Cartography is cool. Where would we be without it as ... one of the oldest surviving maps is the Babylonian Map of The World. Archaeologists date it back to around 700 to 500 B.C. The map was ...

Facebook put together this cool map of the most talked about Winter Olympic sports in every country during the first week of the Olympics. Some observations (see continent-by-continent maps below ...

Here's a map of Poland's 2007 parliamentary election. The orange regions are the Powiats (counties) won by the socialist Civic Platform, while the blue are the Powiats won by the conservative Law ...