Great, you’ve found your way to the shiny new Mapswire blog! I’m Stefan and I’m writing about maps and how to create them. As you've probably already learned, there are…
What are map projections? A map projection is a transformation of the locations on a sphere or ellipsoid into locations on a plane. The mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss proved in…
While most of my maps are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (see FAQ for details), I’ve published some maps that are in the public domain. You can use…
Antarctica is the continent that contains the geographic South Pole. It is situated in the Southern Hemisphere and lies almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle. Antarctica is the fifth-largest…
Europe is historically regarded as a separate contintent, though it’s just the westernmost part of the Eurasian landmass. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic…
Australia and Oceania is a continent located in the Southern Hemisphere, consisting of the country of Australia on mainland Australia and several islands like New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and…
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres. It shares the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe and…
South America is a continent in the southern hemisphere. Its bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. South America may be regarded…