San Francisco-based Mapbox, an open-source mapping platform, has acquired fitness-tracking app Human, which allows users to track activity all day and aggregates the data anonymously to create ...

I trialed this open-source navigation app that's taking on Google Maps with a community-driven approach, and the results were interesting.

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 ...

Epoch AI’s map places visual markers over known sites. Each marker links to satellite views and project details. One green ...

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 Linux Foundation today announced the launch of the Overture Maps Foundation, a new nonprofit organization that aims to enable developers to build new mapping products thanks to its interoperable ...

Providing access to safe drinking water in rural areas has been a big challenge for governments around the world, particularly in India, which has a large rural population. In the Indian state of ...

Also on Friday, AOL announced a $1 million fund to support the growth of open-source mapping in the United States. The new fund is expected to support projects in specific communities over the next ...

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 ...

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 ...

A large and popular open-source mapping database used by many companies, apps, and websites is currently dealing with a strange problem: Random, fake beaches are appearing in places like backyards, ...