Every election season, maps and charts take center stage on major news outlets and across social media. The public is hungry for numbers and understanding, and data visualizers and cartographers race ...

First launched in 2005, Google Maps has helped hundreds of millions of people plot billions of trips worldwide. It’s one of the most indispensable Internet services available: more than 54% of all ...

Google released a big Google Maps upgrade a few weeks ago, including a significant redesign and new AI features. The new Google Maps color palette is now similar to Apple Maps, which is one widespread ...

Map enthusiast and researcher Kerim Bayer has drawn from his collection of 1,366 maps to create a graphic-design book containing 5,180 thumbnail images. Bayer made the Map Section book for the ...

For the casual map fan, Mapzen’s new suite of animated global maps are sweet, delicious eye-candy. And for the developer or map-maker, they hint at cartographic possibilities hardly available until ...

I'm a longtime Google Maps user, even I have trouble navigating the app sometimes. It's not about Google's massive redesign from last year that angered most people. I'm fine with the new colors and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...