A long time ago, when Web 2.0 was just Web 1.0, we had to ask people for directions, copy them down, and hope we had a foldable map to help us find our way. Then along came MapQuest, followed by ...

Map services such as Google Maps are very convenient services that automatically tell you the route to your destination, but on the other hand, it has been pointed out that the handling of location ...

About a month ago, when Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development announced a massive open-source Autonomous Mapping Platform (AMP), it wasn’t entirely clear how the ambitious plan would all come ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Mass graves were reported in Ukraine soon after Russia's full-scale invasion in early 2022, and were promptly probed by investigators and forensic experts as likely crime ...

The open source project promises the media, NGOs and the open source community a free alternative to commercial map services. During a presentation at the CCC event "Datenspuren 2024", Kreil gave an ...

Data is immensely powerful. The trick lies in organizing the stuff. The good news is that so many organizations are now offering tools that help with this—and so many of these tools are open source.

Wikipedia’s “crowdsourced knowledge” model has created a spectacular resource, but everyone knows the big caveat: if the data’s important, don’t trust the online encyclopedia without verifying it ...

If Toyota has its way, the maps guiding your future autonomous vehicle won’t be delivered through Google, Apple, Baidu, or TomTom, but via a map platform as free and accessible as Linux, MySQL, Apache ...

With more than 140 cafes scattered across its many neighborhoods, Pittsburgh has earned its ranking as one of the nation’s top coffee cities. Now, one local software engineer wants to put it on the ...

TileMill turns open source data about the world into map tiles that allow you to customize (or experiment with) the look of your maps. There are also a wide variety of open data sources to drive your ...