World map in Ptolemy’s “Geographia” (1460) (courtesy Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) No maps remain from the Ancient Greeks and ...

For decades, surveying — which consists largely of making measurements to determine the relative positions of points above, on or beneath Earth’s surface — had much higher accuracy than mapping for ...

Although women have always been part of the mapping landscape, their contributions to cartography have long been overlooked. Mapmaking has traditionally featured men, from Mercator's projection of the ...

Niantic Spatial launches two upgraded version of its Scaniverse app and VPS 2.0. The former is useable on regular phones, giving users in construction or logistics, the tools to scan the world around ...

Robots that can perceive and map the world in three dimensions are becoming essential to support exploration, environmental monitoring and infrastructure inspection, yet their performance in complex ...

Although women have always been part of the mapping landscape, their contributions to cartography have long been overlooked. Mapmaking has traditionally featured men, from Mercator’s projection of the ...