The Overture Maps Foundation, a community-driven initiative to create an open map dataset, has unveiled a pre-release of its latest iteration. The release showcases new features planned for ...

A free Minecraft tool called Arnis lets players explore real-world locations, including their own neighborhood, using ...

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, ...

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 ...

If you've ever wanted a better look at deep space, you now have your chance. A treasure trove of data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope is now available for public consumption. Included with ...

How Niantic Spatial is turning a decade of 30 billion crowdsourced photos and data into the most precise urban navigation system delivery robots ever had.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In June, Business Insider published an investigation into the data center industry. We wanted to dig into the pace of growth in ...

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 ...