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Why Facebook Is Interested In GPS Apps

HuffingtonPost.com | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 05.09.2013 | Technology

For years, technology companies have touted the advent of a new fusion of your social habits and mapping. You're driving home from work and an ale...

The Colorful Life of the Four-color Theorem: A Tribute to Kenneth Appel

David H. Bailey | Posted 05.08.2013 | Science
David H. Bailey

Kenneth Appel, who along with Wolgang Haken, in 1976 gave the first proof ofĀ the four-color theorem, died on April 19, 2013, at the age of 80.

LOOK: NYers Draw Their Own Personal Manhattans

The Huffington Post | Inae Oh | Posted 04.04.2013 | New York

While the grid system may be Manhattan's defining structural feature, it's the stories of its inhabitants that truly hold the island together. In ...

These Aren't Your Normal Google Maps

The Huffington Post | Betsy Isaacson | Posted 04.03.2013 | Technology

These aren't actually Persian rugs you can throw in your foyer. But artist David Thomas Smith's photographs are certainly inspired by the colorful Mid...

INTERACTIVE MAP: NYC Murder Rates Compared To Other Countries

The New York World | Posted 02.12.2013 | New York

Compare the 2012 homicide rate in each New York City police precinct to the national homicide rates of countries, as compiled by the United Nations. ...

Can Bangkok Be Mapped?

AP | By ELISA MALA | Posted 03.17.2013 | Travel

BANGKOK (AP) — Navigating the streets of Bangkok can challenge even the most seasoned of travelers. Roads wind into each other instead of running pa...

OMG, A Graffiti Treasure Map

ARTINFO | Posted 03.09.2013 | Arts
ARTINFO

By mapping all of 311's graffiti complaints by neighborhood, Gothamist has created a handy guide that most likely best reflects which areas of New Yor...

PHOTOS: See Maps Of 'Game Of Thrones' World

Jonathan Roberts | Posted 03.04.2013 | Books
Jonathan Roberts

Illustrating the maps for The Lands of Ice and Fire was a large commission. The final result is 12 maps, each 2 feet by 3 feet - 72 square feet of cartography in total, many of which link up and overlap. The trick with a project of this size and complexity is organization.

It's Not Just Apple

Wall Street Journal | Posted 02.22.2013 | Technology
Read More: Maps, Technology News

There is something disappointing about the austere potential perfection of the new maps. The satellites above us have seen all there is to see of the ...

Just Say No to Drug War?

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 02.03.2013 | World
Craig K. Comstock

Juan Manuel Santos, incumbent President of Colombia, which has fought a long-time war on drugs with the support of the U.S., has just signed a public letter questioning that war on grounds of efficacy, cost, side effects, and fairness.

Obsessed: Cartography

Graham Arader | Posted 02.03.2013 | Arts
Graham Arader

When it comes to map collecting, I am the epitome of an obsessive-compulsive, borderline maniacal fanatic in every respect.

How Google Maps Can Help Victims Of Hurricane Sandy

The Huffington Post | Britney Fitzgerald | Posted 11.05.2012 | Technology

Google Maps is most often used to show us how to get from point A to point B. But over the years, this service has evolved into a much greater piece o...

Why One Country Is Unhappy With Apple Maps

SearchEngineLand | Posted 01.02.2013 | Technology
Read More: Maps, Technology News

apple-maps-dokdoFrom the it-had-to-happen-sooner-or-later department: Apple is in the midst of its first international territorial dispute over its ne...

New Book Showcases Amazing Maps

Tim Wallace | Posted 12.08.2012 | Books
Tim Wallace

We need maps that people enjoy spending time with; maps that they'll voluntarily look at long enough to learn something.

LOOK: Frightening Map Shows You Where Cyberattacks Are Happening RIGHT NOW

The Huffington Post | Betsy Isaacson | Posted 10.05.2012 | Technology

Ever wondered how many cyberattacks occur across the world every second? The non-profit Honeynet Project attempts to give you a sense of where and how...

Forgotten Mapmaker Has Better Maps Than Apple And Maybe Even Google

The Atlantic | Posted 12.04.2012 | Technology
Read More: Maps, Technology News

Apple's maps are bad. Even Tim Cook knows this and apologized for them. Google's maps are good, thanks to years of work, massive computing resources, ...

Castles in the Cloud

David Sable | Posted 12.01.2012 | Media
David Sable

We have become so used to decimal-notated releases that we blindly accept whatever we are told and put up with inferior products and services that we would never accept in our off-line real world.

Two Tech Giants Pair Up To Make Maps

Reuters | Posted 11.30.2012 | Technology

(Reuters) - Phone maker Nokia Oyj is expected to announce a deal that will give customers of technology company Oracle Corp access to Nokia's mapping ...

Apple CEO Offers Apology For Maps Debacle

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 09.28.2012 | Technology

Apple CEO Tim Cook has issued an official apology for the company's half-baked Maps app. Cook wrote that the mobile mapping product "fell short" of...

5 Reasons Apple Broke Up With Google Over Maps

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 09.28.2012 | Technology

Recent reports claim that Apple ended its iOS mobile maps contract with Google a year early. But the result, Apple's home-brewed Maps app, has left ma...

5 New Uses For Maps

Chris Barnes | Posted 11.24.2012 | HuffPost Home
Chris Barnes

I didn't realize that getting my dad a GPS for his birthday would affect my parents' household ecosystem. Suddenly there were a few boxes of outdated,...

Bad News About Google Maps On iOS 6

Reuters | Kevin Krolicki | Posted 11.24.2012 | Technology

* Google's Schmidt says Google Maps not on offer for iPhone 5 * Schmidt says hopes to keep Apple search partnership, decision Apple's...

Sanborn Atlases: Divining Rods of Local History

The Los Angeles Public Library | Posted 10.27.2012 | Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Public Library

The serendipity of wandering off on intellectual tangents once brought on by thumbing through a card catalog file has now gone digital and it is a lot easier on the back in some cases.

Maps That Change the World: From the London Underground to the Cosmos

Mario Livio | Posted 10.15.2012 | Science
Mario Livio

In 1815, English geologist William Smith published the first geological map of Britain -- these findings formed the basis for theories the age of the Earth and were even a major contributor to Darwin's theory of evolution of the species.

Mapping Our Future

Thomas Fisher | Posted 10.02.2012 | Politics
Thomas Fisher

Has the sheer quantity of information and the increasing pace of life so overwhelmed us that we no longer have the time or temerity to fact-check when what we hear doesn't make sense