Women mappers add services often overlooked by men, such as hospitals or toilets, they also tend to focus more on safety BOGOTA, March 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Miriam Gonzalez started ...

With the future Geostationary Extended Orbits constellation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to improve upon current visible and infrared imagery, and lightning mapping ...

The CosmoQuest Citizen Science facility (cosmoquest.org) released a major update to its Mappers software. This software previously demonstrated that everyday people can map craters as effectively as a ...

Try dropping Pegman onto Havana on Google Maps, and the most you’ll see is a sparse collection of panoramic photos taken at a few intersections and town squares around the Cuban city—all uploaded by ...

When Typhoon Haiyan barrelled into the Philippines on 8 November 2013, more than 1,600 volunteers leapt to their laptops to make 4.5 million edits to OpenStreetMap, an online, open global map. Working ...

As Nepal digs out from the devastating magnitude-7.8 earthquake of 25 April, researchers are braced for the next geological hazard. In June, monsoon rains will begin to drench the hillsides ...

Denver — Applied Micro Circuits Corp. has borrowed the enhanced forward error correction (FEC) algorithms of its S3062 family and applied them to three related ...

“There are more connections between the hundred billion neurons in a human brain than there are particles of matter in the known universe.” This description of the brain’s complexity appears late in ...

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Miriam Gonzalez started contributing data to the world's biggest crowdsourced map from her Mexico City home five years ago, she found herself part of a rare ...