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 ...

MetroLab Network has partnered with Government Technology to bring its readers a segment called the MetroLab Innovation of the Month series, which highlights impactful tech, data and innovation ...

Are you planning a pub crawl? Going on a road trip? Visiting a new city? You need a map. And now, you can make your very own. Making maps is usually something you either associate with old dudes in ...

Google has announced that it will be integrating its Google Map Maker into Google Maps. The project started back in 2008, and the service has been suspended due to people adding stuff to the maps ...

Since 2008, Google has run an online tool called Map Maker that allows anyone worldwide to contribute data to Google Maps. Now, that tool is shutting down. The company announced today in its online ...

One of the best ways you can use Project Sigil is to make amazing 3D maps that are tailor-made for your Dungeons & Dragons campaign. In Project Sigil, you can create enormous 3D spaces like taverns, ...

The map maker used by gamers in Halo 5 is getting a PC release. Halo 5: Guardians may never come out on the PC, but its mapmaking tool, Forge, will be released on Windows 10 later this year, Microsoft ...

The Overwatch community are a creative bunch. The exceptional artwork of someone like Joshua Llorente, who imagines new Overwatch maps, does more than simply showcase some serious talent, however - it ...

Google previously announced its intention to close Map Maker back in November 2016. It is replacing the feature by putting more emphasis on its Local Guides program, a scheme designed to reward ...

Faced with the diversity and complexity of information, it is clear that it is becoming vital to have methods and tools to structure the data, analyze it, to establish meaningful relationships between ...

Google has shut down Google Map Maker. A support page went up over the weekend declaring that Map Maker is closed but that "many of its features are being integrated into Google Maps." Map Maker was a ...