Do you have a simple way to understand reality? This essay invites you to consider a helpful way to classify the things in the world, called the “1 + 4 + 1” map. Let’s begin by separating what exists ...
MIT is working on a new way for self-driving cars to get around in unfamiliar areas by imitating the way human drivers navigate. Called Variational End-to-End Navigation and Localization, it uses ...
A new online mapping platform offers spatial data, mapping tools, hosting space, and advice/consulting services to help increase transparency in land use decision-making. Map for Environment was ...
Downtown San Francisco is a tale of two street grids. They converge on Market Street, or in Herb Caen's words, "That obtuse angle that no traffic plan can ever solve." Geoff Boeing, a Ph.D student at ...