Google has defended its Map Maker technology which has provoked a police complaint by the Survey of India mapping department. In a statement provided to ZDNet, a Google spokesperson said the ...

CBI has registered a preliminary enquiry (PE) against Internet giant Google over 'Mapathon 2013', an event organised by the US company, for allegedly violating laws by mapping sensitive areas and ...

While the hurricane in Puerto Rico and its lasting effects may feel far away from Oxford, Ohio, Miami's Department of Geography decided to do something about it. On Friday, September 29, the ...

The first mapathon competition between USC and UCLA took place on Wednesday at the Polymathic Innovation Lab in Leavey Library. Its goal was to assist the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team by examining ...

University of Colorado Boulder's Geography Department is calling for maps that capture life affirming geographies - following Cindi Katz’s invitation for imagining Topographies of Hope (2001) and ...

Security establishment feels “unauthorized” public competitions like ‘Mapathon 2013’ could have serious repercussions for national security. Freely available satellite imagery and mapping facilities ...

University of Delaware students documented 700 buildings and nearly 200 miles of roads in Tanzania during a humanitarian mapathon last week. The students uploaded the Geographic Information Systems ...

Students in the Epsilon Eta professional coed environmental fraternity had big plans for Earth Day 2020. They certainly weren’t alone. This year is the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day, which ...

On the evening of May 4, over 75 Philadelphians stared intently at their laptops, intermittently looking up to see how many total edits had been made to OpenStreetMap. By the end of the night the ...

Light music, keyboard clicking and the smell of catered Zareen’s emanated from a small room in the Stanford Medical School as three dozen students huddled around tables digitally tracing roads and ...