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, ...

It’s well-known that Google and Apple dominate the mobile map navigation market (but mainly Google). If you have Google Maps on your phone, most people don’t really need another navigation application ...

The Overture Maps Foundation took info from Microsoft, Meta, and more to help more developers create a new wave of map apps. Reading time 4 minutes If you’re not Google (or, to a much lesser extent, ...

When your data and work grow, and you still want to produce results in a timely manner, you start to think big. Your one beefy server reaches its limits. You need a way to spread your work across many ...

The Linux kernel is made up of a huge number of source code, and it is necessary to load the code considerably in order to make a mistake as to where and what processing is written. "Interactive map ...

Gaming on Linux has come a long way in the last half a decade. While it was always possible to game on Linux, the titles that worked flawlessly on the platform were few and far between. Valve’s ...

In the comments to my recent post about dumping Windows and installing Linux Mint, in just 10 minutes, someone asked for an article about how to actually do things in Linux. That's certainly a fair ...