The final weekend of June brings a full slate of events across New Jersey, with everything from major concerts and beach ...

Today:Early fog in the far southwest clears quickly. Most areas stay dry with sunshine and variable cloud, though northern and northeastern regions may see isolated showers. Light winds overall, ...

In scenic Alhambra Valley south of Martinez, where forest and grasslands surround large homes, wildfire risk is high, and for retired technology executive Kevin Lewis and his wife, there’s only one ...

We’ve all pulled up Street View on Google Maps to show a friend what our childhood home looked like, or dropped that little person icon onto the streets of Paris to see if we booked a hotel in a cool ...

The histories of some pieces of land in Chicago are well-known. The Thompson Center in the Loop stands on the former site of the Sherman House Hotel. The Chicago Police Belmont Area Headquarters and ...

Microsoft’s research arm has long been fascinated with working with large amounts of data at scale. Projects like TerraServer explored how to search and display geospatial data, mixing mapping and ...

Fire insurance maps are an invaluable resource for anyone trying to understand how cities have changed over the past century. The challenge has always been unlocking what's inside them—that is, until ...

If you're a ChatGPT user, you can now integrate third-party apps directly into your AI chats. OpenAI launched this feature in October 2025, and it's available on all types of ChatGPT accounts, ...

There is a plethora of Python packages for geospatial analysis, such as geopandas for vector data analysis and xarray for raster data analysis. As listed at pyviz.org, there are also many options for ...

NICAR — the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting 1 — is one of my favorite annual journalism conferences, even if I haven’t been in a few years. That’s because it’s uniquely easy to ...

PySAL, the Python spatial analysis library, is an open source cross-platform library for geospatial data science with an emphasis on geospatial vector data written in Python. It supports the ...