For the first time, researchers have assembled a complete digital picture of the world’s built environment, mapping every ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: Janice Partyka is principal of JGP Services, a consulting practice. She is GPS World’s editor for wireless, writing a monthly column for the Wireless LBS Insider newsletter. The views ...

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 ...

A few days into a trip in Iceland, I was trying to find a hot spring-but not the kind with a paved parking lot or an infinity-pool edge. I wanted steam, stone, and silence. So I opened Google Maps and ...

A digital map of the Earth goes back 750 million years through the extinction of the dinosaurs. Users can enter a city name to see what it looked like several centuries ago. Ian Webster, the ...

Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the wonders of the universe as she is. When she's not daydreaming about flying through space, she's daydreaming ...

From his home in Marin County, about a half-hour drive north of San Francisco, Tom Harrison makes wilderness maps by hand. He’s been doing this for four decades. His bestseller, a package of 13 maps ...

When a motion detector went off overnight at Kromrey Middle School, a police dispatcher called up a digital map of the building, pinpointed the detector, clicked on a live feed from the nearest camera ...

Developing self-driving cars is about more than teaching computers when to accelerate or brake. Autonomous driving systems need to be programmed with an untold number of behavioral cues that human ...