mapping

The Neighborhood Visualizer Maps The Resource Intensity Of Your City

BY Ariel Schwartz | 05-08-2012 | 1:58 PM | NEIGHBORHOOD VISUALIZER

How much material did it take to build your house? How much energy did it use? This new interactive map tells you exactly how much you and your neighbors are using. READ MORE›

Track Thyself: Quantify Your Life For Productivity, Fun

BY Kevin Purdy | 04-18-2012 | 11:30 AM | WORK/LIFE

There are plenty of tools for tracking just one thing you care about and regularly update on your own--exercise, eating, places you feel comfortable “checking in.” But well-kept personal data is useful, revealing, and hits a sweet spot between curiosity and action.READ MORE›

Navigation Powered By Declassified Missile Tech (And Maybe Apple) Makes Sci-Fi Real

BY Kit Eaton | 10-31-2011 | 9:41 AM | INNOVATION

Navigation, thanks to a bunch of innovations, is about to get futuristic in a way Star Trek's Mr. Chekov would be impressed with ... and Google isn't necessarily along for the ride.READ MORE›

iPhone's New Maps Might Look Like Your Napkin Doodles

BY John Pavlus | 08-15-2011 | 4:47 PM | IOS

The Google-powered precision of the Maps app for iPhone and iPad is so ubiquitous that it's hard to think of digital maps looking any other way. But Apple, preternatural innovator (and now-enemy of Google) that it is, may change that ... READ MORE›

Mapnificent Visualizes The Boundaries Of Public Transportation

BY Ariel Schwartz | 07-29-2011 | 6:45 PM | ETHONOMICS

No more blaming being late on the subway. An online mapping tool lets you see exactly how far you can get on public transportation in a given amount of time.READ MORE›

If Google Maps Explores China, Will It Mean More Freedom Or Less?

BY Tim Carmody | 06-15-2011 | 6:53 AM | ETHONOMICS

Launching a maps product in China requires jumping formidable bureaucratic hurdles and navigating thorny ethical issues. Google's still determined to make it work, but at what cost?READ MORE›

Apple Rumor Roundup: New MobileMe, More and Better Location Apps, Smart TV

BY Kit Eaton | 03-25-2011 | 12:37 PM | INNOVATION

The ever-churning Apple rumor mill's latest on the future of MobileMe, location apps, and that Apple TV story again.READ MORE›

Rebecca Solnit's Dark Poem to San Francisco, in Maps [Slideshow]

BY Suzanne LaBarre | 12-20-2010 | 5:55 PM | INNOVATION AGENTS

If guide books ever bothered being honest, they’d look a lot like Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, Rebecca Solnit’s dark, cartographic poem to the Bay Area. The book -- a collection of maps and essays written by both ... READ MORE›

China Set to Grant Nokia Digital Mapping Rights, Google Nowhere in Sight

BY Kit Eaton | 07-15-2010 | 7:24 AM | INNOVATION

Nokia's is on track to get an official license to offer online digital map services in China, according to some reports. It would become the first foreign company to win the right. Will this give Ovi maps a new lease on life? It just ...READ MORE›

Apple Acquires Canadian 3D Mapping Software Company Poly9: Apple iMaps?

BY Dan Nosowitz | 07-14-2010 | 4:37 PM | MAGAZINE

Apple quietly acquired Québec-based Poly9, which makes 3D web-based maps similar to those of Google and Bing Maps. Is Apple about to launch its own competitor?READ MORE›

Stamen Design Wins a $400,000 Grant for New User-Generated Data-Viz Project

BY Alissa Walker | 06-16-2010 | 3:15 PM | DESIGN

The San Francisco designers known for their urban mapping and data visualization projects won the top grant from the Knight Foundation for their new concept CityTracking.READ MORE›

Using Laser-Scanning to Preserve Africa's Endangered Monuments

BY Suzanne LaBarre | 06-08-2010 | 11:11 AM | ZANZIBAR

From Icon comes news of the Zamani Project, a fascinating research initiative in which University of Cape Town scientists render the African landscape in 3-D. Through photography, laser-scanning, and a slew of other mapping techniques ... READ MORE›

Infographic of the Day: Using Flickr Geotags to Map the World's Cities [UPDATED]

BY Cliff Kuang | 05-26-2010 | 9:15 AM | DESIGN

Photographer Eric Fischer uses Flickr's geotags to create city maps that show the places of intense human interest.READ MORE›

Apple Store Cube Is More Popular Landmark Than Statue of Liberty: Cornell Report

BY William Bostwick | 03-24-2010 | 1:02 PM | DESIGN

A Cornell study says the Cube came in at number 28 worldwide, and number 5 in New York City.READ MORE›

Google-Mapping Your Life: Which Way to Omelet-Town?

BY William Bostwick | 03-12-2010 | 10:05 AM | DESIGN

Christoph Niemann's latest project is an atlas of daily life.READ MORE›

Tweet-Mapping Arrives, Along with the Twitter's Battle Against Google

BY Kit Eaton | 03-11-2010 | 8:10 AM | INNOVATION

Twitter's geotagging powers could transform the lifecasting service into something extremely powerful. And the company's just taken the first steps to making this happen through its own Web page: It's turned on Tweet mapping. ...READ MORE›

Mapping Toronto's Sound Ecology: From Architecture to Santa Claus

BY William Bostwick | 03-09-2010 | 1:39 AM | DESIGN

While the City of Toronto unveils a material-culture scrapbook of 176 years of history, designers Greg J. Smith and Max Ritts map what Toronto sounds like today.READ MORE›