For a proper upper-class spinster and author of endearing novels about women, Jane Austen surely does encounter a vile assortment of ruffians, footpads and killers. In “Jane and the Waterloo Map,” ...

The course of British history could have been altered if a horse hadn’t been distracted by the smell of vegetables in a Belgian garden. It might sound ludicrous, but could it be true? The horse in ...

WATERLOO -- A late census and a misunderstanding about population deviations means city staff has a quick turnaround getting out new ward and precinct maps before a public hearing later this month.

WATERLOO — Some of you might just see an old hand-drawn map. But Eva Dodsworth sees hundreds of stories waiting to be told. That’s why Dodsworth, the geospatial data services librarian at the ...

Yesterday we told you there's now public transport information in Google Maps. Unfortunately it looks like there are still one or two gremlins to be ironed out. Like, for example, its insistence that ...

When Napoleon was infamously defeated at Waterloo in 1815, the conflict left a battlefield littered with thousands of corpses and the inevitable detritus of war. But what happened to all those dead ...