The fireworks are over and the grill has cooled, but if you’re still feeling patriotic after July 4th, here’s a challenge: See how well you can draw the outlines of all 50 states from memory.

Facts and ideas can be mapped in ways that show how they relate to each other. The map drawing usually begins with outlined notes, because few people can think fast enough to construct a map in ...

North Carolina map-makers used “concept maps” unseen by the public to draw parts of the new state House map now under scrutiny in an ongoing gerrymandering lawsuit, according to a key lawmaker’s ...

A Hanover middle school student is showing off his unique skill for mapping from memory. Brooks Tunstall, who is in eighth grade at Oak Knoll, can draw a fairly accurate map of the world from memory ...