Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In ...

The Kenya National Highways Authority (Kenha) has invited bids for the tarmacking of six major roads in the Ukambani region ...

The state of Alabama is appealing a federal court ruling from earlier in the year that struck down its 2023 congressional map ...

The story of Starlink in the DRC is not just about internet access; it's a test case for bridging one of the planet's most ...

The boundaries of Apple’s walled garden aren’t as well defined as they used to be; Apple Maps is the latest app to break out. It has taken a while—the app launched in 2012—but you can now ...

Users are starting to see the new Google account switcher in Maps on Android. The redesign brings the UI closer to what you see on the web. Since August 2024, we have been keeping tabs on a new ac ...

Just six years later, an expedition led by Francisco de Ulloa proved California was connected to the mainland—but the landmass was still erroneously depicted as an island on many maps for a few ...

Apple made a surprise–and long overdue–move last summer when it brought Apple Maps to the web. Available at beta.maps.apple.com, the simple web interface brought Apple new and excellent maps ...

Apple last year introduced a beta version of Apple Maps on the web, which allowed users of other platforms to access the company’s mapping service for the first time. However, Apple Maps on the ...

Using crowdsourcing and the power of a large community, Waze can understand what happens on roads worldwide by giving its userbase the ability to pin traffic hazards on the map. The functionality ...

I enter that address in Maps and it is located. I now want to search for, say, used bookstores near that location. How do I do it? Scenarios like this were very common for me too, pre-iOS 18.

But geographically, the island doesn't loom quite as large as you might think. Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks ...