It seems quaint to imagine a time before the internet was omnipresent. Imagine sitting in a classroom and seeing maps, globes, and atlases. Maps on pull-down rollers, globes that conveyed the wonder of a spinning planet, atlases that seemed dense with knowledge; who knew where Timbuktoo was? Now you could find it! The internet entered the public domain in the proverbial blink of an eye. Here was the school district, looking for a digital map solution delivered over the internet directly to classrooms, libraries, laboratories, and more.
These maps were fascinating to the new visitors to the internet as they opened the window to a graphical user interface while providing geographical content as people had not seen before. Fast-forward to today, with ubiquitous access to information, remote learning, and technology at the fingertips of teachers and students.
We've taken our ability to create digital maps to a new level by adding the power of storytelling to them. By working closely with teachers and partners, we've pioneered new ways to bring geography to life with Lesson Maps, digital Field Trips, and curated collections of maps that help provide context to every subject in the classroom.