The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.

The Gulf of Mexico will now appear as the Gulf of America for U.S. users of Apple Maps, Bing Maps and Google Maps.

Imagine the bustling streets of Antwerp, where merchants navigated the sprawling city with woodcut maps. Or sailors plotting ... s turn-by-turn navigation, a 16th-century GPS might have been ...