Maps have always been essential tools for making sense of the world around us. From hand-drawn sketches to today’s digital systems, they visualize space, plan movement and understand places. But the ...

For Samantha Cortese, adding texture to the continents is the most satisfying part of painting a map masterpiece for a client’s home. Cortese has been interested in paper maps since she was a kid ...

More than half a million Missouri highway maps rolled off the presses this year, proof that paper maps still have a purpose in the digital era. Despite the widespread reliance on digital GPS devices, ...