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1 of 4 — Archivist and registrar Rebecca Enman stands next to historic maps of New Hampshire at the Plymouth State University Museum of the White Mountains' "Wayfinding" exhibit. Peter Biello/NHPR 2 ...

Google Maps' Street View is becoming less and less about photographing the road to grandma's house and more about getting you off the road entirely. The tech giant's latest project, unveiled Monday, ...

Twenty years ago, the map room in Great Smoky Mountains National Park might have been dedicated to heavy, flat-file drawer cabinets — each one filled with stacks of intricately detailed maps of the ...

JACKSON — Two hundred years ago, Philip Carrigain put New Hampshire on the map by creating the first official, to-scale cartographic representation of the Granite State. Carrigain’s map missed some ...

Our knowledge of the ocean floor has many gaps; maps based on satellite data contain only the roughest of details. A scientific cruise is using sonar to fill in the picture along its path from South ...