Google pioneered the location intelligence industry about twenty years ago, which allowed it to dominate the field. Overture Maps Foundation, a collaboration between traditional mapping vendors and ...

In traditional RPG Maker series, making maps usually involves the use of “tiles” such as grass meadows, buildings, map objects, etc., and placing them one by one in the editor manually. This gives the ...

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When it comes to maps—a technology that is 4,000 years old—two completely contradictory things are true: Nothing has changed. And everything has changed. What hasn’t changed is maps are a language.

Over the last decade sophisticated mapping has moved out of the realm of the world of pricey, complex Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and down to consumer level. I’m sure there are still some ...

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Fifteen million people take Uber rides every day, and they generate a lot of data. In fact, two years ago Uber began building its own mapping tool to process all of it. Called Kepler.gl, the software ...

Uber has a car with a bunch of cameras on it driving around collecting images to improve its maps, driving routes, and ETAs, TechCrunch has confirmed. And here are the first photos of it. When asked ...

Before 2025 came to a close, the city of Aspen rolled out an update to its GIS-powered MapAspen webpage, which allows anyone ...

Depending on your age, getting from point A to point B might have involved paper maps — what we called an “atlas,” the giant book that lived in the pocket behind the passenger seat of the car. As maps ...

Faced with the diversity and complexity of information, it is clear that it is becoming vital to have methods and tools to structure the data, analyze it, to establish meaningful relationships between ...