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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...