Cartography

The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 from military intelligence by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis.

The ancient Ionian Greeks off the coast of Asia Minor from the city of Melitus were the first to use stars and their relationship with the earth’s surface to aid them in navigating the globe.

How many times does the geographical mass of the US fit into Russia, if any? Is Australia larger than China? The way we re used to seeing maps and how the size of countries relate to each other can sometime be misleading. In the following animated map on ‘Business Insider’ the size of countries is put into a unique geographical perspective.

Turkey's most prestigious cartographic museum is continuing to provide a fascinating look on the past with its trove of maps from Turkey and around the world.

Operated within the body of the Defense Ministry's General Command of Cartography, the Cartography Museum is home to maps from various periods and regions, as well as measuring and plotting apparatuses. 

In an attempt to boost alternative tourism in the region, the Municipality of Hersonissos decided to expand the network of bicycle routes featured in its brochure, which contains 9 different routes at all levels of hardship, including maps, photographs and other relevant information.

From volcanoes in Iceland to wildfires in California, NASA has made nearly three million images of Earth’s thermal emissions available to the public for free.

We have been accustomed to seeing countries on the maps called ‘Mercator projection maps’.  The Mercator maps are cylindrical projections of countries on the globe and were first introduced in 1569 by a Belgian geographer and cartographer named Gerardus Mercator. Since then most of us have accepted that these maps accurately represent the size of each country in relation to others.

Hundreds of migrants attempting the perilous journey across the Mediterranean are feared to have drowned after their overcrowded fishing boat capsized off Libya, Italy's coastguard said Aug. 5.
 
The boat had run into difficulty some 15 nautical miles off Libya and sent out a distress call, picked up by the coastguard in Catania in Sicily.
 

“Better late than never” is the saying, and “late” in modern Greece is only 180 years or so. The case in point refers to the establishment of a unified and functional land registry (cadastre) in the country.

Italian police arrested 15 African men suspected of throwing about a dozen Christians from a migrant boat in the Mediterranean on April 16, as the crisis off southern Italy intensified. 

Forty-one more deaths were reported in a separate incident.