Google today said that it’s open-sourced Cartographer, a library for mapping movement in space in both 2D and 3D. the technology works with the open source Robot Operating System (ROS), which makes ...

Cartography has evolved from the traditional craft of hand‐drawing maps to a data‐intensive, computer‐aided discipline that underpins modern geographic information systems (GIS). This transformation ...

How can maps fight racism and inequality? The work of the Black Panther Party, a 1960s- and 1970s-era Black political group featured in a new movie and a documentary, helps illustrate how cartography ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Google has an unusually high interest in strapping small computers to people’s bodies in the name of ...

Series Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Pedestrians and Cartographers -- Top-Down or Bottom-Up? -- Choice of Artworks -- Structure of the Book -- 1. Psychogeography: The Politics of Applied ...

If you have been following the development of Google Maps over the years, you are probably familiar with the Trekker, the backpack that includes a complete Street View camera setup for mapping ...

In May 2013, Google's vice president took to stage and announced that Google was aiming to build "a perfect map of the world". An honourable notion with almost utopian connotations -- and why ...