Bill Gates mind-maps. So do Jack Canfield, Deepak Chopra, and Al Gore. Leonardo da Vinci was the most famous mind-mapper of all, his visual style of note taking immortalized in his notebooks. Mind ...

I recently attended a seminar for university teachers. Its mission was to help teachers use online geographic tools in creative ways. And I was really surprised – there are so many interesting ...

CENTEGIX, a school safety technology company, announces the launch of Safety Blueprint, a digital mapping tool said to provide a dynamic, multilayer map of all campus facilities and spaces, including ...

A long time ago, when Web 2.0 was just Web 1.0, we had to ask people for directions, copy them down, and hope we had a foldable map to help us find our way. Then along came MapQuest, followed by ...

Fifteen million people take Uber rides every day, and they generate a lot of data. In fact, two years ago Uber began building its own mapping tool to process all of it. Called Kepler.gl, the software ...

A map can turn a flat table of coordinates into something you can read in seconds, and that is the real value of geospatial data visualization tools. They help you convert geographic data and ...

In any given place, zoning laws decide what we can build and where. There are estimated to be some 30,000 local governments in the U.S. that employ zoning laws, and they can be complex. “Sometimes 150 ...

The new tools are great, but the up-and-comers will continue to face stiff competition from the big companies. MapQuest still has the prettiest maps, in my opinion. Microsoft’s Bing Maps offer a neat ...