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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Late last month, AOL relaunched MapQuest with a new brand identity and features to support consumers' increasing demand for locally relevant Web content. Not stopping there, the mapping service is now ...

Google Maps is great, but it's not the only map tool in town. I've switched to Organic Maps, an open-source Google Maps ...

Microsoft is to closely cooperate with the OpenStreetMap project, whose founder it has hired. The initiative, announced on Tuesday, is starting with Microsoft's release of aerial Bing Maps imagery to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google Maps is getting some competition. The Linux Foundation has announced Overture Maps, a “new collaborative effort to develop interoperable open map data as a shared asset that can strengthen ...