Both navigate the globe, but they serve completely different purposes. Discover when to use Google Maps for transit and Google Earth for 3D exploration.

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 ...

Most free mind-mapping tools aren't really free. They let you create a map or two, but dangle actual features behind a paywall. Worse yet, you might spend hours getting your mind-map just right, but ...

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 ...

A map can turn a flat table of coordinates into something you can read in seconds, and that is the real value of geospatial data visualization tools. They help you convert geographic data and ...

Brainstorming sessions are great, but sometimes you can drown in a thicket of ideas, half-concepts, and free-floating words. If that sounds familiar, you might want to consider a mind-mapping tool.

Forecasts are key to mitigating the worst effects of floods. Vadim Petrakov/Shutterstock About 90% of natural disasters are water-related – most notably cyclones, floods and droughts. Since 2000, over ...

(All browser-based map tools break the maps up into pre-rendered squares or tiles that can be downloaded independently.) Working with the code means making decisions about how you want to assemble the ...