CENTEGIX, a school safety technology company, announces the launch of Safety Blueprint, a digital mapping tool said to provide a dynamic, multilayer map of all campus facilities and spaces, including ...

In any given place, zoning laws decide what we can build and where. There are estimated to be some 30,000 local governments in the U.S. that employ zoning laws, and they can be complex. “Sometimes 150 ...

A mapping tool that aims to provide forecasters and communities with flooding information has expanded to cover 60% of the U.S. population, the National Weather Service announced Thursday. With this ...

Sam Hashemi is confronting one of life’s great quandaries with a map. “I have an 18-month-old kid, so for the first time I’ve been thinking about schools and where we should live and should we buy a ...

Fifteen million people take Uber rides every day, and they generate a lot of data. In fact, two years ago Uber began building its own mapping tool to process all of it. Called Kepler.gl, the software ...

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This screenshot from the new Urban Network Analysis for Rhino 3D shows accessibility to public transit from buildings in Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts. (Credit: Andres Sevtsuk/City Form Lab) ...

I recently attended a seminar for university teachers. Its mission was to help teachers use online geographic tools in creative ways. And I was really surprised – there are so many interesting ...

Bill Gates mind-maps. So do Jack Canfield, Deepak Chopra, and Al Gore. Leonardo da Vinci was the most famous mind-mapper of all, his visual style of note taking immortalized in his notebooks. Mind ...

Mind mapping is a great way to brainstorm and organize your thoughts. With the right tool, you can save your map for later or share it with others to help you. Last week we asked you which tool you ...

Mangroves are salt-tolerant plants found in intertidal areas throughout much of the world’s tropical and subtropical coastlines. Mangrove ecosystems are highly variable, ranging from sparse, stunted ...