Few people are better than Trevor Rainbolt at identifying obscure locations online — but there’s even more joy in watching him visit them IRL. By Tomas Weber Back in 2021, a 22-year-old from Arkansas ...

Recap: It's been 15 years since Google launched the first leg of an ambitious project to build a 360-degree map of the world. Today, there are more than 220 billion Street View images in Google's ...

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map. Reading time 3 minutes The world has a lot of buildings. Now you can see them ...

It’s common knowledge that Google has photographed a huge amount of the planet for its Street View and Google Earth projects. But for the first time, Google has revealed how much of the world it has ...

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it's round, not flat? True. But that isn't the point. See, the ...

To make this happen, scientists collected about 200,000 images between 2010 and 2023. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The most ...

When Christopher Columbus first set foot in what's now the Bahamas, it was the lucky sum of a 1,400-year-old cartographical error and Columbus's own miscalculations ...