Topic: mapping
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The Potential Problem With Personalized Google Maps? We May Never Know What We're Not Seeing
Google is promising a million maps for a million people with its redesign. But can it avoid confining us to customized urban bubbles?
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Maps
This Cutting-Edge Map Tool Turns Anyone Into a Cartographer
OpenStreetMap debuts a new map editor that will close the gap between grassroots mapping and its giant industry rivals.
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Maps
DIY Mapping Goes Mainstream
Some of the best images on Google Earth, brought to you by random people.
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Wikipedia Nearby Is Basically a List of Interesting Things Near You
The fruits of Wikimedia's new GeoData extension.
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Maps
This Vest May Well Be the Future of Indoor Mapping
Wearable cartographic tech enables people to map the insides of buildings just by walking around.
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Maps
San Francisco's Mission District in 22 Maps
An atlas created by students at UC Berkeley shows just how many layers one neighborhood can have.
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Maps
A 3D Play for Citizen Planning
Gothenburg, Sweden, makes its public planning process interactive with an online map.
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Videos
How Road Maps Were Made in the 1940s
An educational film from Chevrolet explains what it took to make an accurate map.
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Mapping a Lifetime of Health Risks
How does where we live affect our health? An expert tries to quantify it.
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Uncovering the World's First Cities
Researchers map the earliest Mesopotamian cities and find that many develop in surprising areas.
