Who needs Google Earth? NASA and Japan just improved the most complete—and free—digital topographic map of Earth. The Japanese Advanced Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, is an ...

With that mouthful of a title, our friends at MyReadingMapped have again created a very interesting map for us to check out. In their words: If you do an image search for the Thermohaline circulation, ...

The claim: Earth's oceans have no 'elevation features' and are in a 'container' A Facebook post shows an image of a string of islands in a calm expanse of ocean alongside a diagram of different ...

Open the Apple Maps app in iOS 6, tap the bottom right page curl, and enable Satellite view. All of a sudden whatever you’re looking at will be filled in with realistic details like grass, pavement, ...

This is pretty nifty: a new elevation map of the Earth has just been released by NASA and Japan. It’s a “significantly improved” version of one that came out in 2009. It uses Japan’s ASTER, the ...

Matt Fox at Google Earth Library has just created a very impressive topographic map overlay for New Zealand. The imagery is lined up perfectly, and amazingly sharp. Matt grabbed all 455 maps from the ...