The cabinet approved on Friday its mandate for the United Nations conference, saying it hopes to see a “green economy roadmap” drawn up, setting out goals for sustainable development and the concrete ...

The Alps’ glaciers are melting, and these Swiss cartographers have work to do. A cartographer at the Federal Office of Topography in Switzerland. Jürg Gilgen draws the first lines of the Cornettes de ...

Map making has always been a heated business, and even with the technological advances of cartography in the Internet age, the political aspects of cartography haven't gone away. In particular, Google ...

Some maps are meant to be felt, not seen. The photograph above shows a page from an atlas commissioned by a Swiss psychologist for a friend who loves geography and maps but is unable to use ...