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Emerging Tech
Why the Real Estate Industry Is Interested in Drones, Too
They're quickly changing the art of visualizing buildings.
Digital Government
Facebook Is Using Your Profile to Track Global Urban Migration Trends
Where you live and where you're from are the only data points this analysis needs.
Emerging Tech
Imagining the U.S. Supreme Court Covered in Solar Panels
Project maps the potential for installing solar power on every square meter of every roof in certain locales.
Emerging Tech
Vancouver Is About to Get the World's First Bitcoin ATM
Apparently, it's easier to test the concept in Canada than the U.S.
Emerging Tech
Video: The Future of Personal Drone Navigation Is Here
For the particularly cartographically challenged.
Modernization
An App to Nab Jerks Who Illegally Use Disabled Parking
Your city could probably use your help.
Digital Government
The Patent Troll That's Been Bilking Transit Agencies Finally Slinks Away
Lawsuit threats based on dubious patents to stop.
Emerging Tech
How Robots in Outer Space Are Influencing the Cars of the Future
If engineers can build bots that can land themselves on Mars, surely they can produce less sophisticated systems for our vehicles.
Emerging Tech
Watch This Adorable Robot Scoot Down Utility Lines Searching for Damage
Meet the "SkySweeper."
Digital Government
Watch the Intricate Patterns of Global Infrastructure Emerge From Geocoded Tweets
Computer scientist Alan Mislove has created a global, navigable map using much of the same data.
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Digital Government
Twitter Can Tell Whether Your Community Is Happy or Not
The results of a study of 82 million tweets from 1,300 counties.
Digital Government
Yes, GIS Files Are Public Data, Too
The California Supreme Court ruled that geographic information system database information is subject to public records laws.
Emerging Tech
Are Civic Hackathons Stupid?
Some officials think the activities are counterproductive.
Digital Government
Transit Agencies Fight Back Against an Infamous Patent Troll
ArrivalStar accused of frivolous lawsuits based on dubious patents.
Digital Government
Visualizing the Stunning Growth of 8 Years of OpenStreetMap
Of course, these people know how to map their own mapping exploits.
Digital Government
Every Library and Museum in America, Mapped
America's collection of museums and libraries is actually super impressive when you look at it on a map.
Digital Government
We're Only Beginning to Understand How Our Brains Make Maps
The smell of your neighborhood pizzeria and the feel of a cracked sidewalk may be more important than researchers previously believed.
Digital Government
The Potential Problem With Personalized Google Maps? We May Never Know What We're Not Seeing
Google is promising a million maps for a million people with its redesign. But can it avoid confining us to customized urban bubbles?
Digital Government
How Twitter Is Changing the Geography of Communication
New research suggests that location plays a smaller role now in who we talk to and what we talk about.
