Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine’s founding editor ... We adhere to this long-held mission by creating the world’s best wall maps, outdoor recreation maps, travel maps, atlases ...

Once this photolettering process was refined, it was applied to our United States map supplement in the May 1933 National Geographic. Shortly thereafter, Society cartographer Charles E.

8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here show the world as it is now, with only one difference: All the ice on land has melted and ...

My map-reading has been good: I am on a section of the "wild wall," where nothing modern deforms the vista, not a power line or a road; there is only this ancient road of sorts, the Great Wall of ...