A long time ago, when Web 2.0 was just Web 1.0, we had to ask people for directions, copy them down, and hope we had a foldable map to help us find our way. Then along came MapQuest, followed by ...

TileMill turns open source data about the world into map tiles that allow you to customize (or experiment with) the look of your maps. There are also a wide variety of open data sources to drive your ...

The open source project promises the media, NGOs and the open source community a free alternative to commercial map services. During a presentation at the CCC event "Datenspuren 2024", Kreil gave an ...

About a month ago, when Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development announced a massive open-source Autonomous Mapping Platform (AMP), it wasn’t entirely clear how the ambitious plan would all come ...

If Toyota has its way, the maps guiding your future autonomous vehicle won’t be delivered through Google, Apple, Baidu, or TomTom, but via a map platform as free and accessible as Linux, MySQL, Apache ...

MapBox, a service used to design and publish custom maps, has announced that Le Monde, one of France’s largest newspapers, has unveiled a brand new paid website and used MapBox’s interactive maps.

There's a specific kind of guilt that comes from being a privacy-conscious Android user. You buy the hardware, you aggressively debloat the device (or even root it), and find polished open-source ...

Map services such as Google Maps are very convenient services that automatically tell you the route to your destination, but on the other hand, it has been pointed out that the handling of location ...

Data is immensely powerful. The trick lies in organizing the stuff. The good news is that so many organizations are now offering tools that help with this—and so many of these tools are open source.

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Mass graves were reported in Ukraine soon after Russia's full-scale invasion in early 2022, and were promptly probed by investigators and forensic experts as likely crime ...