GUATEMALA CITY – Once upon a time a man made a map. Accompanied by a donkey and a few measuring instruments, he rode around Guatemala taking measurements of the country and returned to the capital to ...

The tactile map, an innovation of the 19 th century, allowed both blind and sighted students to feel their way across a given geography. Writing for the digital archive 19 th-Century Disability: ...

Alexander Murphy recalls visiting a Guatemala museum some years ago and gazing up at a huge relief map of the country. Something about the borders struck the University of Oregon geography professor ...

SCOTLAND looms large in the world’s biggest 3D map. A Polish war veteran built the concrete relief model — measuring 164ft by 130ft — between 1974 and 1979 at Barony Castle in Eddleston, Scottish ...

For more than 10 years, its whereabouts known only to a few dedicated preservationists, one of the world's largest relief maps and perhaps the province's best example of folk art languished in a ...

The large scale map of Scotland was built over six summers by a small group of Polish exchange students and staff from the Hotel Black Barony SCOTLAND looms large in the world’s biggest 3D map. A ...

If the task of changing the country were as simple as cleansing a relief map, then a group of artists would have succeeded in just one day. Members of Dakila, a movement composed of artists who want ...

Using powerful 7-Tesla brain imaging, researchers mapped how the brainstem manages pain differently across the body. They discovered that distinct regions activate for facial versus limb pain, showing ...