Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marianna Kantor is the chief marketing officer at Esri. Since the earliest humans painted stories on cave walls, languages that ...

Google Maps is announcing a small update today that makes life a bit easier for developers who want to use the service by adding GeoJSON support to its JavaScript API. GeoJSON is an open-source data ...

DeepSeek R1, the latest large language model to be creating a stir with its outstanding open source performance, is reshaping how you can approach complex tasks such as mapping and data visualization.

Google today announced the launch of Google My Maps, the company’s new tool for creating custom Google Maps from directly within Google Drive. Announced today, the tool makes it easy to create new ...

Hydrographic maps reveal subsurface features with the potential to hold fish, though the degree to which they do depends ...

Do you have some data with geolocation information that you want to map? You may not think of R when you’re looking for a GIS platform, but new packages and standards have helped make the R ...

The Overture Maps Foundation took info from Microsoft, Meta, and more to help more developers create a new wave of map apps. Reading time 4 minutes If you’re not Google (or, to a much lesser extent, ...

Scientists have proposed new instruments that would use spectroscopy to decode dark matter, dark energy and cosmic inflation. Telescope images can tell us a whole lot about celestial objects: where ...

Waymo, the autonomous vehicle company under Alphabet, has started creating 3D maps in some heavily trafficked sections of Los Angeles to better understand congestion there and determine if its ...

A performance artist named Simon Weckert was able to trick Google Maps into showing there was a traffic jam on a street when there wasn't one. Weckert simply pulled a wagon filled with 99 cell phones ...