The Overture Maps Foundation, a project to standardize map data, was founded in December 2022 by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom, and is hosted by the Linux Foundation. I talked to Marc Prioleau ...

Privacy and ethics while matching data with locations were hot topics during Friday’s panel discussion on GIS technology and ...

As businesses gather, store and analyze an ever-increasing amount of data, tools for helping them discover, catalog, track and manage how that data is shared are also becoming increasingly important.

Let's start with the basics: What is data? Given its frequent usage and diverse interpretations, data has become a complex concept. Everyone is familiar with the idea, but different people might give ...

DeepSeek R1, the latest large language model to be creating a stir with its outstanding open source performance, is reshaping how you can approach complex tasks such as mapping and data visualization.

In moments of crisis we often turn to data in an attempt to both understand the situation we are in, and to look for answers of how to escape. In response to COVID-19, governments around the world ...

Dozens of Chinese research vessels are on a quest to map the sea floor at strategically vital regions of the world's oceans. Some of the surveying is for mineral deposits and fishing grounds, but the ...