A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

In the digital age, we’re better connected than ever before. But until now, a curious blind spot has existed in terms of how well we’re connected to the ground beneath our feet. While Google Maps ...

Maps are used to explore the world, but they also offer exploration within their own boundaries. The writer Rebecca Solnit once said in an interview: “Maps invite us to locate ourselves in relation to ...

When Google turned into Alphabet back in 2015, it decided to spin off one of its internal startups, Niantic Labs (later renamed Niantic, Inc.), which had been developing augmented reality experiences.

For decades, surveying — which consists largely of making measurements to determine the relative positions of points above, on or beneath Earth’s surface — had much higher accuracy than mapping for ...

GPS and airborne light detection and ranging (lidar) have revolutionized archaeology. In just a little more than a decade, dozens of previously hidden cities and settlements have been discovered under ...

Hundreds of homemade maps reveal how people from around the globe found their ways through crisis Emily Erdos, Harvard, Massachusetts, United States A map is supposed to symbolize travel, discovery, ...

The same brain areas that help us map physical space help us chart social connections, and the best relationship ...