Like most people, I've always been fascinated by maps. To see how a region or country or city is laid out and get a better understanding of a locale is fascinating. Some maps are simple, while others ...

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Earlier this summer Apple began testing the expansion of its updated Maps data in Italy, a rollout that started with North America before continuing in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal ...

Long before Italy became the unified country we know today, the peninsula was a piece of rival kingdoms, duchies and foreign-controlled territories. The above map of Italy in 1850, before unification, ...