Forget cartography: Maps also serve humanistic inquiry. When I can't coax students to participate, I'll pull up a map and marvel at their volubility. In fact, I often use Saul Steinberg's famous New ...

No audio available for this content. Hard to believe, we have only now reached the 10th anniversary of Google Maps. As important as digital maps have become, their purpose is much the same as the ...

Maps used to be beautiful, when cartography was as much of an art as a science, and dragons were as likely to be waiting on the other side of the world as new spice trades. But as of late, maps have ...

Last year, Americans spent more than 300 billion minutes on navigation apps, like Waze or Google Maps.The GPS systems in our ...

At least 22 states have invested in digitizing maps of K-12 public schools for law enforcement agencies to use during emergencies such as mass shootings. Iowa, New Jersey, Virginia and Wisconsin have ...

A few days into a trip in Iceland, I was trying to find a hot spring-but not the kind with a paved parking lot or an infinity-pool edge. I wanted steam, stone, and silence. So I opened Google Maps and ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Trips down memory lane are now available on Google's digital maps. The new twist on time travel is debuting Wednesday as part of the "Street View" feature in Google's maps, a ...

When you think about the world of cartography, antique sepia maps are likely the first images that come to mind. But nomadic digital cartographer Robert Szucs saw the potential to turn nature’s ...

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(TNS) - In the wake of the devastating shooting in Uvalde, Texas, one of the latest tragedies in a decadeslong surge of violence in schools, some state lawmakers are embracing a bipartisan measure ...

When a motion detector went off overnight at Kromrey Middle School, a police dispatcher called up a digital map of the building, pinpointed the detector, clicked on a live feed from the nearest camera ...