Date / Time |
Story |
Tuesday January 16, 2024 @02:06PM |
Google Maps Can Now Navigate Inside Tunnels |
Tuesday January 24, 2023 @06:00PM |
Strava Acquires Fatmap, a 3D Mapping Platform For the Great Outdoors |
Thursday January 19, 2023 @02:28PM |
OpenWLANMap: Free WLAN-Based GPS Replacement |
Thursday December 08, 2022 @12:00PM |
Google Combines Maps and Waze Teams Amid Pressure To Cut Costs |
Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:30PM |
China Building Gigantic Structures In the Desert |
Monday October 05, 2020 @07:27PM |
Nevada Authorizes Development of Driverless Car Rules |
Tuesday June 30, 2020 @07:56PM |
Earth's Final Frontier: The Global Race To Map the Entire Ocean Floor |
Monday April 27, 2020 @06:33PM |
Undersea Cable Map Shows Where The Data Pipes Are |
Thursday February 06, 2020 @12:56PM |
Google Maps for iOS and Android Redesigned To Help You Plan Better Trips |
Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:04PM |
Apple Rolls Out Maps Redesign To All US Users |
Friday August 16, 2019 @02:37PM |
What3Words: The App That Can Save Your Life |
Thursday July 25, 2019 @08:54AM |
AI is Supercharging the Creation of Maps Around the World |
Monday May 27, 2019 @12:56PM |
Apple Starts Collecting Data For Apple Maps in Canada |
Wednesday May 08, 2019 @02:05PM |
Mapping Begins of Lands Lost To North Sea During the Stone Age |
Tuesday May 07, 2019 @04:50PM |
UK's National Mapping Agency is Working on a Project To Create Almost Real-Time Maps of Streets |
Thursday April 11, 2019 @04:09PM |
Google's Next Big Money Maker Could Be the Maps on Your Phone |
Monday February 11, 2019 @12:50PM |
It's the Real World -- With Google Maps Layered on Top |
Sunday December 23, 2018 @11:16PM |
Ride Sharing Service Grab is Messing up the World's Largest Mapping Community's Data in Southeast Asia |
Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:10PM |
As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume |
Friday July 27, 2018 @03:46PM |
What OpenStreetMap Can Be |
Wednesday May 16, 2018 @06:56PM |
NASA Says Humans Are Causing Massive Changes In Location of Water Around the World |
Wednesday April 11, 2018 @07:47PM |
New Navigation App 'Live Roads' Promises 1.5m-Accuracy With Standard Cellphone Hardware |
Friday March 30, 2018 @02:54PM |
A Struggling Town Is Reviving Itself With... Geocaching |
Friday February 23, 2018 @10:14PM |
Japanese Scientists Invent Floating 'Firefly' Light |
Wednesday October 11, 2017 @10:36AM |
This Company Is Crowdsourcing Maps For Self-Driving Cars |
Monday October 02, 2017 @11:26AM |
Navy Returns to Compasses and Pencils To Help Avoid Collisions at Sea |
Wednesday October 05, 2016 @08:40PM |
Google Releases Open Source 'Cartographer' |
Saturday August 27, 2016 @07:44PM |
Microsoft Lost a City Because They Used Wikipedia Data |
Friday July 15, 2016 @02:04AM |
Null Island: The Land of Lousy Directional Data |
Tuesday June 07, 2016 @04:05PM |
FAA Warns of GPS Outages This Month During Mysterious Tests On the West Coast |
Sunday May 01, 2016 @12:37PM |
What Happened to Google Maps? |
Monday April 11, 2016 @03:00PM |
Internet Mapping Glitch Turned a Random Kansas Farm Into a Digital Hell |
Wednesday April 06, 2016 @06:29PM |
Mapping The Brain To Build Better Machines |
Sunday March 27, 2016 @02:45PM |
Wrecking Crew Demolishes Wrong Housing Duplex Following Google Maps Error |
Thursday March 17, 2016 @12:17AM |
Algorithm Deduces Drunk Tweets From Geolocation, Behavioral Data |
Tuesday March 15, 2016 @01:48PM |
Once Pro-Microsoft, Here Maps Drops Support For Windows 10, Windows Phone |
Friday February 26, 2016 @11:43AM |
NASA's New Horizons Returns Images of the Canyons of Pluto's North Pole |
Sunday January 31, 2016 @09:06PM |
Israeli Vulture Suspected of Spying Returned |
Sunday January 31, 2016 @11:22AM |
Tiny Pluto Big On Frozen Water Reserves |
Tuesday January 26, 2016 @09:45AM |
Uber's Smartphone-Based Gyrometer Monitoring Seems To Be the Future of Driving |
Sunday January 10, 2016 @04:36PM |
Google Claims a TOS Violation On RouteBuilder For Using the Map API |
Thursday January 07, 2016 @06:51PM |
New Maps Show Spread and Impact of Drought On California Forests |
Tuesday December 08, 2015 @01:59PM |
New Software Puts License Plate Scanners Into Citizens' Hands |
Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:35PM |
Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops |
Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:51AM |
Nokia Completes Sale of HERE Mapping Services |
Thursday November 05, 2015 @06:10PM |
Ocean-Mapping Robots Could Help Uncover Mysteries of the Deep Blue |
Tuesday October 20, 2015 @08:45AM |
GA Tech Students Use Cell Phone Pings To Find Missing Person |
Saturday October 03, 2015 @10:47AM |
US Bombs Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital |
Wednesday September 23, 2015 @10:15AM |
Scientists Propose Using Fast Radio Bursts To Chart Universe In 3D |
Monday August 31, 2015 @07:25PM |
World's Most Powerful Digital Camera Sees Construction Green Light |
Monday August 31, 2015 @01:11AM |
"McKinley" Since 1917, Alaska's Highest Peak Is Redesignated "Denali" |
Sunday August 23, 2015 @03:51PM |
In Germany, a Message-in-a-Bottle Found 108 Years After Its Release |
Saturday August 22, 2015 @01:33PM |
Mobile Phone Data Can Track the Spread of Infectious Diseases |
Tuesday July 14, 2015 @08:47AM |
Google To Reopen Maps To User Edits, With an Anti-Abuse Plan |
Tuesday July 07, 2015 @04:30PM |
A Real-Time Map of All the Objects In Earth's Orbit |
Tuesday May 19, 2015 @11:15AM |
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Responds In Nepal |
Monday May 11, 2015 @11:35PM |
Google Shuts Down Map Maker Following Hacks |
Saturday May 09, 2015 @12:31PM |
Interactive Map Exposes the World's Most Murderous Places |
Saturday May 09, 2015 @10:27AM |
Uber Wants To Buy Nokia's Mapping Services |
Thursday May 07, 2015 @03:18PM |
Centimeter-Resolution GPS For Smartphones, VR, Drones |
Tuesday April 28, 2015 @12:45PM |
Signs of Subsurface 'Alien' Life Found In Antarctica |
Friday April 24, 2015 @07:22AM |
Yellowstone Supervolcano Even Bigger Than We Realized |
Thursday April 23, 2015 @10:14AM |
Traffic App Waze To Alert L.A. Drivers of Kidnappings and Hit-and-Runs |
Tuesday April 21, 2015 @12:24PM |
OSGeo Foundation Up In Arms Over ESRI LAS Lock-In Plans |
Thursday April 16, 2015 @10:19AM |
Google Sunsetting Old Version of Google Maps |
Tuesday April 07, 2015 @12:06PM |
Getting Started Developing With OpenStreetMap Data |
Tuesday February 17, 2015 @10:37AM |
Drones and Satellites Spot Lost Civilizations In Unlikely Places |
Tuesday February 17, 2015 @09:51AM |
OpenStreetMap.org Gets Routing |
Tuesday February 17, 2015 @09:36AM |
New Map Shows USA's Quietest Places |
Tuesday February 17, 2015 @09:23AM |
Japan Now Has More Car Charging Points Than Gas Stations |
Sunday February 08, 2015 @02:54PM |
Google Earth Pro Now Available Free |
Thursday January 29, 2015 @06:42PM |
Spire Plans To Use Tiny Satellites For More Accurate Weather Forecasts |
Tuesday January 20, 2015 @10:51AM |
Moscow To Track Cell-phone Users In 2015 For Traffic Analysis |
Friday December 12, 2014 @10:54PM |
Google Earth API Will Be Retired On December 12, 2015 |
Thursday November 13, 2014 @02:09PM |
Crowd-Sourced Experiment To Map All Human Skills |
Thursday November 13, 2014 @10:50AM |
How Baidu Tracked the Largest Seasonal Migration of People On Earth |
Saturday November 01, 2014 @01:44PM |
Drones Over Greenland Give Insight To Pollution's Effects On Melting |
Thursday October 30, 2014 @08:20AM |
Ebola Forecast: Scientists Release Updated Projections and Tracking Maps |
Saturday October 18, 2014 @08:55AM |
India Successfully Launches Region-Specific Navigation Satellite |
Friday October 17, 2014 @06:43PM |
How Whisper Tracks Users Who Don't Share Their Location |
Tuesday October 07, 2014 @09:23AM |
Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America |
Wednesday October 01, 2014 @10:16AM |
Aral Sea Basin Almost Completely Dry |
Monday September 29, 2014 @01:43PM |
Marines Put Microsoft Kinect To Work For 3D Mapping |
Friday September 26, 2014 @09:28PM |
Marc Merlin's 2014 Burning Man Report For Tech Geeks |
Monday September 01, 2014 @08:51AM |
Post-Microsoft Nokia Offering Mapping Services To Samsung |
Saturday August 23, 2014 @09:19AM |
2 Galileo Satellites Launched To Wrong Orbit |
Friday August 22, 2014 @05:11PM |
Finding an ISIS Training Camp Using Google Earth |
Sunday August 10, 2014 @03:38AM |
Online Tool Flagged Ebola Outbreak Before Formal WHO Announcement |
Tuesday August 05, 2014 @11:49AM |
Australia Rebooting Search For MH370 |
Monday July 28, 2014 @10:35AM |
Google's Mapping Contest Draws Ire From Indian Government |
Tuesday July 08, 2014 @08:14AM |
Microsoft Kills Off MapPoint and Streets and Trips In Favor of Bing Maps |
Monday June 23, 2014 @07:25PM |
Satellite Swarm Spots North Pole Drift |
Monday June 09, 2014 @10:44PM |
iOS 8 Strikes an Unexpected Blow Against Location Tracking |
Thursday June 05, 2014 @11:40AM |
AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud |
Saturday May 03, 2014 @10:57PM |
How To Find Nearby Dark Skies, No Matter Where You Are |
Thursday April 10, 2014 @04:54PM |
London's Public Bike Data Can Tell Everyone Where You've Been |
Friday April 04, 2014 @09:37PM |
Most Expensive Aviation Search: $53 Million To Find Flight MH370 |
Thursday April 03, 2014 @08:40AM |
Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours |
Thursday March 27, 2014 @12:42PM |
In Israel, Class-Action Plaintiff Requests Waze Source Code Under GPL |
Sunday March 23, 2014 @10:38AM |
French, Chinese Satellite Images May Show Malaysian Jet Debris |
Friday March 21, 2014 @09:09PM |
New Information May Narrow Down Malaysian Jet's Path |
Friday March 14, 2014 @08:47PM |
Ask Slashdot: Easiest To Use Multi-User Map Editing? |
Tuesday March 11, 2014 @08:27AM |
China Deploys Satellites In Search For Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight |
Sunday March 09, 2014 @12:31PM |
Data Visualization: Key Routes and Communities In London's Bike Rental Network |
Friday February 28, 2014 @10:25PM |
3D Maps Reveal a Lead-Laced Ocean |
Friday February 28, 2014 @07:35PM |
Scottish Independence Campaign Battles Over BBC Weather Forecast |
Monday February 24, 2014 @03:34AM |
New Interactive Map For Understanding Global Flood Risks |
Sunday February 23, 2014 @01:16AM |
Lechal Haptic Footwear Guides You By Buzzing Your Feet |
Tuesday February 11, 2014 @01:10PM |
How Online Clues Located North Korea's Missile-Launcher Factories |
Saturday February 08, 2014 @09:53AM |
Dead Reckoning For Your Car Eliminates GPS Dead Zones |
Tuesday February 04, 2014 @10:32AM |
Atlas of US Historical Geography Digitized |
Thursday January 30, 2014 @01:40PM |
First Global Map Outside the Solar System |
Friday January 17, 2014 @08:24AM |
Google Removes "Search Nearby" Function From Updated Google Maps |
Thursday January 16, 2014 @09:27AM |
Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap |
Tuesday December 17, 2013 @12:48PM |
Google Nabs Bing Maps Architect |
Thursday November 21, 2013 @09:36AM |
Galileo Navigation System Gets Go-Ahead From EU Parliament |
Thursday September 26, 2013 @10:26AM |
Wealth In Africa Mapped Using Mobile Phone Data |
Tuesday September 24, 2013 @01:02PM |
Ordnance Survey Creates Minecraft Model of Great Britain |
Thursday September 05, 2013 @08:42AM |
Court Orders Retrial In Google Maps-Related Murder Case |
Sunday August 25, 2013 @05:52PM |
Ostrich-Egg Globe Believed Oldest To Show New World |
Thursday August 22, 2013 @01:37PM |
Open Source Mapping Software Shows Every Traffic Death On Earth |
Tuesday August 06, 2013 @09:35AM |
Using Zillow's Creative Commons Neighborhood Boundary Data For the U.S. |
Saturday July 27, 2013 @11:57PM |
A Circular New York City Subway Map To Straighten Things Out |
Thursday July 18, 2013 @08:10AM |
Ancient Mars Ocean Found? |
Tuesday July 16, 2013 @02:18PM |
Describe Any Location On Earth In 3 Words |
Wednesday July 03, 2013 @09:04PM |
What Does Six Months of Meta-Data Look Like? |
Wednesday July 03, 2013 @08:12PM |
Launch of India's First Navigation Satellite Successful |
Tuesday July 02, 2013 @12:08PM |
Google Maps Updated With Skyfall Island Japan Terrain |
Sunday June 30, 2013 @01:31PM |
Google Street View Backpack Now Available To Volunteers |
Tuesday June 18, 2013 @11:43AM |
UK Town of Ipswich Remodelled As Zelda Level |
Sunday June 16, 2013 @05:23PM |
Archaeologists Discover Lost City In Cambodian Jungle |
Friday May 31, 2013 @06:02PM |
Google Maps Used To Find Tax Cheats |
Thursday May 30, 2013 @01:40PM |
Wii Street U Uses Google Maps to Create 'An Immersive Experience' (Video) |
Saturday May 25, 2013 @07:54AM |
African Soil Mapped For the Very First Time |
Friday May 17, 2013 @06:55PM |
Crowdsourced Network Planning For Connection-Bridging Startup |
Friday May 17, 2013 @06:11PM |
Geologists In Norway Are Using Drones With Cameras To Hunt For Oil |
Wednesday May 15, 2013 @02:17PM |
Google I/O 2013 Underway: Watch For Updates |
Thursday May 09, 2013 @12:03PM |
Zoomable World Videos of Satellite Imagery For the Last 29 Years |
Thursday May 09, 2013 @08:47AM |
Tool Reveals iPad and iPhone User Locations |
Friday May 03, 2013 @06:51PM |
Google Formally Puts Palestine On Virtual Map |
Monday April 22, 2013 @11:21AM |
Germany Fines Google Over Street View - But Says €145k Is Too Small |
Friday April 12, 2013 @06:44PM |
DARPA Develops Non-GPS Navigation Chip |
Tuesday March 26, 2013 @10:23AM |
PlanetIQ's Plan: Swap US Weather Sats For Private Ones |
Tuesday March 26, 2013 @08:43AM |
James Cameron Gives Sub To Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
Saturday March 16, 2013 @07:17AM |
If You're a Foreigner Using GPS In China, You Could Be a Spy |
Monday March 11, 2013 @02:36AM |
Global Warming Has Made the North Greener |
Thursday February 07, 2013 @09:36AM |
Startup Uses Radiation Fear To Map Cellphone Coverage |
Tuesday January 22, 2013 @09:25AM |
New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked |
Tuesday January 22, 2013 @09:19AM |
Swiss Historical Maps Allow Journey Through Time In Your Browser |
Tuesday January 15, 2013 @09:25AM |
OpenStreetMap Hits One Million Registered Users |
Monday December 31, 2012 @05:40PM |
A Wish List For Tablets In 2013 |
Monday December 31, 2012 @03:39PM |
Hardware: A Wishlist for Tablets in 2013 |
Sunday December 30, 2012 @04:29PM |
Foursquare Will Display Users' Full Names By Default |
Sunday December 16, 2012 @12:45PM |
Google Map App's Version of Anonymity Might Violate EU Privacy Laws |
Friday December 14, 2012 @08:21AM |
Google Loses Santa To Bing |
Thursday December 13, 2012 @09:37AM |
Revamped Google Maps Finally Available On iOS |
Thursday November 22, 2012 @10:51AM |
Sandy Island, the Undiscovered Country |
Thursday November 15, 2012 @10:11AM |
Nokia Releasing Maps for Competing Devices |
Sunday October 21, 2012 @08:56PM |
Ask Slashdot: How To Both Mirror and Protect Crowdsourced Data? |
Friday October 19, 2012 @07:44PM |
Real-Time Cyber-Attack Map |
Friday October 12, 2012 @05:36PM |
Google Maps Gets Massive Street View Update |
Thursday October 11, 2012 @08:45AM |
The Case That Apple Should Buy Nokia |
Saturday October 06, 2012 @07:04PM |
Nokia Keeps Quietly Mapping The World |
Tuesday October 02, 2012 @09:14AM |
Nokia Bets Big On Mapping |
Friday September 28, 2012 @07:25AM |
Why Apple Replaced iOS Maps |
Wednesday September 26, 2012 @01:38PM |
Google Captures 'Street View' of Underwater Habitats |
Sunday September 23, 2012 @05:26PM |
Apple Reportedly Luring Ex-Google Mappers With Jobs |
Wednesday September 19, 2012 @11:59PM |
Major Backlash Looms For Apple's New Maps App |
Thursday September 13, 2012 @11:22PM |
Ask Slashdot: What Tech For a Sailing Ship? |
Thursday August 30, 2012 @04:12PM |
Apple Rejects Drone Strike App |
Friday July 27, 2012 @08:48AM |
Google Outs 3D Maps For iOS Ahead of Apple |
Saturday July 21, 2012 @10:46PM |
Ox Bow Lake Formation, As Seen By the Google Earth Time Machine |
Thursday July 19, 2012 @09:37AM |
Australian Consumer Group Wants Geo-IP Blocking Banned |
Friday July 13, 2012 @06:34PM |
Google Maps Adds UK Cycling Directions |
Tuesday July 10, 2012 @08:08AM |
Indoor Navigation On Your Smartphone, Using the Earth's Magnetic Field |
Friday July 06, 2012 @01:58AM |
Ask Dr. Ramsey Faragher About Navigation/Positioning Technology |
Thursday July 05, 2012 @07:57AM |
GPS Spoofing Attack Hacks Drones |
Tuesday July 03, 2012 @08:30AM |
NAVSOP Navigation System Rivals GPS |
Tuesday June 26, 2012 @12:10PM |
How Satnav Maps Are Made |
Saturday June 23, 2012 @12:19PM |
PadMapper Gets C&D From Craigslist Over Apartment Listing Maps |
Saturday June 09, 2012 @12:50AM |
New Modeling Algorithms Bring More Detail to Google Earth's 3-D World |
Sunday June 03, 2012 @04:50PM |
New Evidence Indicates Amelia Earhart Survived For a Time on Pacific Atoll |
Friday June 01, 2012 @09:17PM |
Apple, Google: Battle of the Cloud Maps |
Thursday May 31, 2012 @01:59PM |
NC Planners May Be Barred From Using Speculative Sea Level Rise Predictions |
Thursday May 31, 2012 @08:46AM |
Sergey Brin Demos Google Glasses Prototype |
Thursday May 31, 2012 @08:34AM |
Australia Drops Second Google Investigation |
Friday May 18, 2012 @02:49AM |
Iran Threatens Legal Action Against Google For Not Labeling Gulf 'Persian' |
Thursday May 03, 2012 @12:10PM |
Google Releases Key Part of Street View Pipeline |
Thursday April 19, 2012 @10:44AM |
Google Earth Incorporates Crowdsourced Balloon Images |
Tuesday April 10, 2012 @08:25AM |
Company Designs "Big Brother Chip" |
Sunday April 08, 2012 @10:32AM |
Wikipedia Mobile Apps Switch To OpenStreetMap |
Thursday April 05, 2012 @07:38AM |
Google Glasses Announced |
Friday March 30, 2012 @11:07PM |
Wind Map of US Will Blow You Away |
Saturday March 24, 2012 @08:39PM |
NHTSA Suggestion Would Cripple In-Car GPS Displays |
Tuesday March 20, 2012 @09:28AM |
Using Apps To 'Soft Control' People's Movements |
Thursday March 15, 2012 @02:10PM |
Stolen iPad's Reported Location Not Enough To Warrant Search, Say Dutch Police |
Thursday March 08, 2012 @09:45AM |
Apple Switches (Mostly) To OpenStreetMap |
Tuesday February 28, 2012 @10:36AM |
Geohashing Conquers the South Pole |
Friday February 24, 2012 @07:33PM |
Remote-Controlled Planes Used For Wildlife Conservation |
Thursday February 23, 2012 @09:41AM |
Google Heads Up Display Coming By the End of the Year |