Norway funds satellite map of world's tropical forests – funding for the project comes through its International Climate and Forests Initiative (NICFI) ~enviro Article 64 words 8 votes
The inside story of the 25-year, $8 million heist of maps, books, and artwork from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library ~books libraries Article 3875 words 5 votes
Apple adds cycling routes and EV charging stations to Maps in iOS 14 ~transport Article 409 words 11 votes
Why Microsoft's new Flight Simulator should make Google and Amazon nervous ~games Article 1847 words 32 votes
Hundreds of hyperpartisan sites are masquerading as local news. This map shows if there’s one near you ~news usa politics journalism Article 1180 words 11 votes
The oldest restaurant in (almost) every country ~food restaurants history Article 1183 words, published Jun 22 2020 8 votes
London Tube map made from a working circuit board ~transport Article 412 words, published Jun 23 2020 8 votes
Coronavirus tracked: the latest figures as the pandemic spreads ~health Article 396 words, published Feb 8 2020 8 votes
Building a map with secret paths for Shovel Knight: King of Cards ~games Article 2485 words, published Dec 5 2019 3 votes
'The perfect combination of art and science': Mourning the end of paper maps ~design Article 1362 words 18 votes
Detailed maps of the donors powering the 2020 Democratic campaigns ~misc politics Article 900 words 11 votes
YouTube trolls advertise fake homeless shelter, tricking 'desperate' California residents and harassing a social media personality ~tech social media google.maps Article 952 words 7 votes
Google Maps is filled with millions of false business addresses created by firms pretending to be nearby ~tech google.maps Article 13 votes
How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell ~tech Article 2618 words, published Apr 10 2016 8 votes
A newly digitized map from 1587 offers a rare glimpse at the way Europeans conceived of the Americas before British colonization ~humanities.history Link 14 votes
A silly Google Maps origin story about how “Satellite” was almost named “Bird Mode” ~tech google.maps Tweet @btaylor: Here's a silly Google Maps origin story about how "Satellite" was almost named "Bird Mode 9 votes
How the US has hidden its empire: The United States likes to think of itself as a republic, but it holds territories all over the world – the map you always see doesn’t tell the whole story. ~humanities.history Article 3234 words 12 votes
"I just tried Google's brand new augmented reality Maps on a one mile walk through San Francisco, and I miss it already" ~tech google.maps Article 256 words 16 votes
How cartographers for the US Military inadvertently created a house of horrors in South Africa ~design Article 5229 words, published Jan 9 2019 15 votes
Apple's New Map — by Justin O’Beirne, a follow up to "Google Maps' Moat" ~tech apple.maps Link 21 votes
Tonopah Test Range in Nevada: The one place in the US Google Earth stopped mapping ~tech google.earth Article 2101 words 12 votes
Maps have the power to shape history: A groundbreaking female cartographer charted the evolution of the United States—and the dispossession of Native Americans ~humanities.history Article 865 words 6 votes
Wizards, Moomins and pirates: The magic and mystery of literary maps ~books literature Article 2024 words 8 votes
End of the rainbow? New map scale is more readable by people who are color blind ~design Article 1058 words 3 votes