maps

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Games like City Bus Manager and Global Farmer are using real-world mapping data from OpenStreetMap for more realistic simulations.

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Mapping companies like Google Maps and Apple’s Maps navigate government pressure and political disputes over sea names. Here’s how they decide what to display.

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Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a higher information density than the Federal Aviation Administration’s aviation maps.

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A practical introduction.

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Who needs GIS when you can build eye-catching 3D topography maps with Python?

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Open-source tools underpin technology used by millions of people, but they’re also vulnerable to manipulation.

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We tend to take a very special interest in archives and maps on this site—and especially in archives of maps. Yet it is rare, if not unheard of, to discover a map archive in which every single entry repays attention.