Whether it's building cities, railroads, or even power lines, our interconnected world has a heavy footprint on the rest of the environment. These mind-blowing renderings by the cartographers at Globaia show the awe-inspiring power of ...READ»
Siri is only the beginning. By drawing together a few recent insights about Google's moves and Apple's innovations, one might wonder if Google is afraid of falling behind its rival--for good.READ»
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»
Conflict photojournalism is compelling because of the human drama within the frame: "you can't look away" is the whole point. But what if that also obscures some other, subtler aspects of visually documenting war? A strange new ...READ»
The World Wide Web has been around long enough now that we take the first two "w's" in "www" for granted. And now with the advent of the "cloud computing" metaphor, it's even easier to imagine that our Internet data pings around the ...READ»
The World Wide Web has been around long enough now that we take the first two "w's" in "www" for granted. And now with the advent of the "cloud computing" metaphor, it's even easier to imagine that our Internet data pings around the ...READ»
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»
The London Underground map is right up there with the Mercator projection in the cartographic pantheon. Designer Harry Beck replaced assumptions of geographic accuracy with principles of electrical wiring diagrams to create an ...READ»
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»
Flight to the suburbs, urban decay, ruin porn--we've all become yawningly familiar with these tropes of modern migration. But a set of fascinating new maps based on data from the 2000 and 2010 U.S. Census shows that, if you look ...READ»
Several academic institutions are teaming up in an effort organized by the U.S. Geological Survey to help turn satellite imagery into actionable data in Japan.READ»
"Nobody walks in LA," sang the Missing Persons, and you know it's true if you've ever driven in Los Angeles (while everyone else also tries to drive in Los Angeles). The Texas Transportation Institute continually ranks Los Angeles as ...READ»
We love globes, but we despise reading them. All those extraneous symbols and endless topographic lines that could easily be confused with countries -- if not for Where in the World Is Carmen San Diego, we'd probably go on thinking ...READ»
Google's taken another step toward the Matrix, wrapped in white ribbons for the Royal Wedding, in a tricked out map of London with super-real 3-D representations of buildings and parks along the procession route.READ»
A month ago, Google's Android operating system became the world's top OS for smartphones. How did that happen? Well, now you can see for yourself -- courtesy of a stunning 3D data visualization of Android phone activations geolocated ...READ»
Last night I found out my wife can't identify the state of Iowa on a map. I was about to scold her until I realized I couldn't tell Alabama and Mississippi apart myself. Luckily, today I found "50 and 50," a graphic-design gallery of ...READ»
Using the connections between friends on Facebook, an intern at the company has created a remarkable map of the world.
Paul Butler usually works as a grunt on the data infrastructure engineering team at Facebook, which gives him ...READ»
