Last month, I wrote about the fun and the pitfalls of viral maps, a feature that included 88 super-simple maps of my own creation. As a follow-up, I’m writing up short items on some of those maps, ...

When an unregistered user edits an article in Wikipedia, since the IP address of the personal computer is confirmed and recorded, the geographical position of the unregistered user is displayed on the ...

The month of October has me thinking about monsters—and, specifically, mutants. That’s a strange way to start a conversation about tech topics, I realize. But stay with me: I promise this is going ...

Accurate digital mapmaking has never been more important, as Apple’s recent fiasco with its new, glitchy and inconsistent Apple Maps app has shown. The coordinates correspond to the relevant locations ...

First it was Foursquare. And then Apple. Now, it's Wikipedia's turn to switch from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap. Wikipedia's decision, announced in a blog post, is likely to raise more questions about ...

You can add another name to the list of companies dropping Google Maps in favor of OpenStreetMap. When Wikipedia announced its new app for iOS today, they also announced that they would be using ...

In the world of online mapping, it feels like things aren’t quite going in Google’s direction these days: Apple switched away from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap when it launched iPhoto for iOS.

Wikipedia updated its Android and iOS apps today, but the noteworthy feature is that the online encyclopedia-like website dumped Google Maps for OpenStreetMap, which marks a growing trend for ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. The timeline below shows the results of processing the entire English ...