Most African countries lack accurate local base maps, stalling all sorts of government and business decisions. A new project ...

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 ...

A book of maps shows 50 different ways of looking at Cincinnati, from population and traffic to chili and beer.

The Tuesday rule applies not only to stores, but also for post offices and shipping companies. Google Maps data reveals these mailing stations are busiest on Mondays at 2 PM. Two Mondays before ...

The Ordnance Survey (OS) on Thursday released much of its mapping data to the public for both personal and commercial reuse, in a move the government said is designed to spur business innovation and ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Before community activists can tackle issues like income ...

Apple ’s new Maps feature, while impressive, has received a worrying amount of negative press. Maps, introduced in iOS 6 and featured in the iPhone 5, has dinged Apple’s reputation and could hurt it ...

In the current digital era, businesses are gathering and keeping enormous volumes of data on their clients, staff and operations. Data breaches and cyberattacks are more likely as data volume ...

How many emails do you send a day? What about files? And how many records do you save to the cloud every day? Data is no longer stationary, yet we still create data maps that are a snapshot in time.

A minor, 4.0-magnitude earthquake struck in Northern California on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological ...

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