Sam Hashemi is confronting one of life’s great quandaries with a map. “I have an 18-month-old kid, so for the first time I’ve been thinking about schools and where we should live and should we buy a ...

A new tool co-developed by Google Earth Engine and the World Resources Institute is being billed as the planet’s most up-to-date and high-resolution global land cover mapping data set, giving ...

Startup inspiration can strike anywhere. But for Atlas.co*, a freemium browser-based, real-time mapping tool that’s being built by an Oslo, Norway-based team of (initially student) engineers, the ...

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An interactive map made using GIS showing the rise in fuel prices by percentage displayed where they occur by major highway networks. Maps like this enable us to visualize socioeconomic challenges in ...

Sept. 3 (UPI) --The National Weather Service announced Wednesday it has expanded its real-time flood mapping tool to cover about 60% of the U.S. population, double its coverage from a year ago. The ...

How would you go about identifying usable land that suits your building tastes? [Scott Sexton] was specifically looking for land that’s not too steep to build on, and realized that existing resources ...

NAVIGATE...AND COULD PROVIDE VITAL INFORMATION IN TIMES OF A WILDFIRE. CAL FIRE'S NEW INTERACTIVE TOOL ALLOWS THE PUBLIC TO SEE WHERE FIRE RISK IS HIGHEST. CAL FIRE ...

Located in the Himalayan mountains and separated by rivers, Bhutan’s topography makes transport challenging. Indeed, the roads connecting communities and settlements through or along mountains are no ...