Slashdot Items Tagged "mapping"

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