As NASA’s Perseverance rover continues to explore the surface of Mars, an open-source, online mapping software known as Multi-Mission Geographic Information System (MMGIS) has been instrumental in ...

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 ...

Overture Maps Foundation data could help third-party developers use maps that don’t rely on Google and Apple. Overture Maps Foundation data could help third-party developers use maps that don’t rely ...

That means mapping developers can access the 2.3 billion unique buildings, 54 million places of interest, 200 million addresses, and other global data collected by the Overture Maps Foundation. The ...

Garment supply chains can be confoundingly opaque, making labor and environmental abuses impossible to detect. A new online tool, on the other hand, wants to shed some light on the issue. How? By ...

These newly reported discoveries [of mass graves] confirm our darkest fears. The people of Ukraine and the world deserve to know how exactly those buried in the forest near Izium have died. Amnesty ...

StreetComplete makes it fun to improve OpenStreetMaps.

MapQuest announced Tuesday that it plans to offer Web developers an open-source beta version of its mapping and routing technology. MapQuest OpenAPI is the latest entry into the market of open-source ...

Are we at a crossroads in mapping innovation? In this episode of Today in Tech, host Keith Shaw speaks with Marc Prioleau, executive director of the Overture Maps Foundation, about how artificial ...

Ten years after the launch of Google Kubernetes Engine, the technology that redefined cloud infrastructure is showing no signs of slowing down. What began as an internal Google LLC experiment has ...