In this Monday, April 9, 2012 photo a scant rack of road maps is seen at a gas station/mini mart in Solon, Ohio on. Colorful maps bearing the logos of the oil companies that printed them _ names like ...

Don't throw away your paper maps just yet! There are a few reasons why the old, reliable, atlas is seeing a resurgence.

Ted Florence is ready for his family trip to Botswana. He has looked up his hotel on Google Maps and downloaded a digital map of the country to his phone. He has also packed a large paper map. "I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A combination of maps as art and a search for a bigger picture from young travelers has sparked a significant jump in the sales of ...

Even if everything navigation is pointing in the direction of GPS, you’ll never tear some folks away from their paper maps. In Northern New Jersey, Stephanie Kivett Ohnegian keeps an atlas in her car ...

Maps have always been essential tools for making sense of the world around us. From hand-drawn sketches to today’s digital systems, they visualize space, plan movement and understand places. But the ...

A dangerous norm is emerging. The widespread adoption of navigation systems is dumbifying the American navigator, making them incapable of reading a map, much less understanding it. To rectify that, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Used to be, Dad would stuff a half-dozen maps in the glove box before setting out with the family on a road trip to see the waterfalls at Yosemite or the granite faces of Mount ...

These days, when it's time to hit the road, drivers are more likely to let a computer or GPS unit plot their journey than to pull out a paper road map. "I go online," said Erica Falk, 32, an ...