Forget cartography: Maps also serve humanistic inquiry. When I can't coax students to participate, I'll pull up a map and marvel at their volubility. In fact, I often use Saul Steinberg's famous New ...

Editor’s Note: Janice Partyka is principal of JGP Services, a consulting practice. She is GPS World’s editor for wireless, writing a monthly column for the Wireless LBS Insider newsletter. The views ...

CENTEGIX, a school safety technology company, announces the launch of Safety Blueprint, a digital mapping tool said to provide a dynamic, multilayer map of all campus facilities and spaces, including ...

Cartography has evolved from the traditional craft of hand‐drawing maps to a data‐intensive, computer‐aided discipline that underpins modern geographic information systems (GIS). This transformation ...

I pulled up to an obscure two-track on the side of a dirt road years ago while turkey hunting in Wyoming’s Black Hills. A tangled barbed wire fence stretched across the road with a sign saying, ...

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Harford County Public Schools received a $104,489 grant to craft digital maps that the school system hopes will improve ...

Ballroom D looks like any other windowless ballroom in any other convention hotel -- except it's tricked out with giant cardboard cutouts of cartoon forests and animals, and flat-panel computer ...

GPS systems may get first responders to incident scenes fast, but navigating buildings’ complex mazes of hallways and corridors in potentially chaotic or low-visibility situations can be tricky.

When a motion detector went off overnight at Kromrey Middle School, a police dispatcher called up a digital map of the building, pinpointed the detector, clicked on a live feed from the nearest camera ...