NGS Maps In August 1914, National Geographic magazine published a map of Europe and the Balkan States, subsequently to be the scene of one of the bloodiest conflicts in history—World War I.

To replicate the map, Drennon downloaded the Texas State Boundary shapefile, a location and geographic dataset ... nearer the poles (US, Russia, Europe), while downplaying the size of those ...

Alberto Cantino, an Italian spy, acquired a Portuguese map showing stunning finds in the New World. This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine.