No audio available for this content. Hard to believe, we have only now reached the 10th anniversary of Google Maps. As important as digital maps have become, their purpose is much the same as the ...

Maps used to be beautiful, when cartography was as much of an art as a science, and dragons were as likely to be waiting on the other side of the world as new spice trades. But as of late, maps have ...

For the first time, researchers have assembled a complete digital picture of the world’s built environment, mapping every recorded building on Earth in three dimensions. The GlobalBuildingAtlas, ...

Forget cartography: Maps also serve humanistic inquiry. When I can't coax students to participate, I'll pull up a map and marvel at their volubility. In fact, I often use Saul Steinberg's famous New ...

AI is redrawing America’s digital map. So what makes a region attractive for data center developers? To put it simply, ...

A new partnership between REDAN and Sytemap Technologies Ltd is now positioning digital mapping and verification as a ...

At least 22 states have invested in digitizing maps of K-12 public schools for law enforcement agencies to use during emergencies such as mass shootings. Iowa, New Jersey, Virginia and Wisconsin have ...

In 2016, some 54 percent of the world’s population lives in cities, with that figure expected to rise to 75 percent by 2030. Curious about how urbanization has developed over thousands of years and ...

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