The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...

Google Maps has exciting details about locations around the world. One of the most valuable things to learn about an area is its elevation. You might not know where to find elevation measurements on ...

I stumbled across Google Maps' Area 51 Easter egg by accident while searching for unusual locations online. When you hover over the restricted military base in Nevada, a small UFO icon appears instead ...

Millions visit South Korea each year, a tech-friendly tourist haven. There’s just one problem: Google Maps doesn’t work there ...

Magic Earth has just received a new update, and this time, the parent company has included several goodies, including for ...

The map was made as part of a collaboration between the University of Hawaiʻi and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which ...

Ben Khalesi covers the intersection of artificial intelligence and everyday tech at Android Police. With a background in AI and data science, he enjoys making technical topics approachable for those ...

Newly released, first-of-its-kind agriculture maps of the state of Hawaiʻi are expected to help policymakers, land managers ...

A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out ...

In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that has prompted a new African initiative, “Correct the Map,” calling for depictions that show Africa’s true scale. “For ...

Potentially the largest known source of niobium discovered in central Australia formed 830 million years ago, and we can ...