With digital maps and vast databases, there’s no limit to how rich and real-time maps can get. Accuracy and consistency will come from a system of unique identifiers called GERS. The world is a messy ...

When it comes to maps—a technology that is 4,000 years old—two completely contradictory things are true: Nothing has changed. And everything has changed. What hasn’t changed is maps are a language.

A team has created an interactive dashboard called WhaleVis, which lets users map data on global whale catches and whaling routes from 1880 to 1986. Scientists can compare this historical data and its ...

The Overture Maps Foundation, a project to standardize map data, was founded in December 2022 by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom, and is hosted by the Linux Foundation. I talked to Marc Prioleau ...

Think about it: Maps are fundamental to human evolution, exploration, innovation. Since the first maps were drawn up in the 5th and 6th centuries BCE, we have used them to guide ourselves across land, ...

A group formed by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and mapping company TomTom is releasing data that could enable developers to build their own maps to take on Google Map and Apple Maps. The group, called the ...

You can't have a successful data migration if you don't map it out from the start. Learn what data mapping is and why it's an important early step in data migration ...

For the first time, scientists have used satellite data to create a 3D map of the sun's interior magnetic field, the ...