Northern Virginia is home to the world’s densest concentration of data centers. But as the AI revolution accelerates, major tech firms are quietly looking outside of the existing “digital map” in ...

A new high resolution digital dataset and map—named Itiner-e—of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE is presented in research published in Scientific Data. The findings increase ...

WORKS. YEAH, GUYS, THIS IS SUPER NEAT. SO IT LETS YOU TRAVEL TO ICONIC PLACES LIKE POPS AND ARCADIA. OR WE COULD GO TO THE NEXT SPOT ALONG THE ROUTE, WHICH IS 22 MILES AWAY. THE FIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM ...

New York City voters will decide this November whether to update the city’s 70-year-old map system and streamline housing development. A digitized map is a ballot measure this year, Proposition 5, and ...

We’ve all got them. The notebooks filled with scribbled ideas, the half-finished projects, the “someday” repositories gathering digital dust. For three years, my “someday” project was a 50-page, ...

Why this is important: This isn’t just about adding a fancy new feature. It’s about changing how navigation works. Why should I care: If you spend a lot of time driving, this is a game-changer. Let’s ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. This color image is a three dimensional (3D) view of a digital elevation map of a sample collected by NASA's Phoenix ...

Numerical simulations of gravity-driven flows such as lahars are highly sensitive to the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) used, which directly affects prediction fidelity and computational demands. In ...

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 ...