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A Drone and a Robot Dog Are Best Friends
As it turns out, this odd couple makes for great collaborators.
Waze Fell for Fake Data Planted by a Competitor, Lawsuit Alleges
A new lawsuit alleges that Waze was caught red-handed used fake mapping data designed purely to find data thieves.
Street Selfies Take a Snapshot of British Democracy
800 years of democracy found throughout Britain’s streets.
China Says That the Earthquake in Nepal Moved Mount Everest Three Centimeters
April's 7.8-magnitude earthquake was apparently strong enough to move mountains.
200 Years Later, Archaeologists Are Rewriting the Battle of Waterloo
Archaeologists from the UK and Belgium are using electromagnetic induction sensors, magnetometers, and GIS to analyze the battle’s very first killing grounds.
Where to Find the Best Rave Ever and Other Learnings from What3Words
No, it’s not supposed to make much sense.
Every Three-Metre Square on the Planet Now Has a Unique Address
What3words assigns each area a three-word locator. I was born in thinnest.coverage.intimate.
A New Closed-Source File Format Threatens the Open-Source Mapping Community
A war over how to store the enormous data files containing LIDAR data.
Greenland’s Melting Ice Sheet Mapped in Unprecedented 3D Detail
NASA is using Greenland’s climate past to predict its future.
An International Squad of Emergency Satellites Is Tracking Ebola
Because Big Brother hates pandemics, too.
Design Digital Terrain with the Army's Projection-Mapped Sandtable
State-of-the-art military technology lets you create interactive topographical maps with your hands and piles of sand.