Having a more diverse range of mappers "means we actually have richer information on those maps - not just for the women to use, but for everyone," Solis added.

The OpenStreetMap conference, State of the Map US, will take place on the CU Boulder campus Oct. 20–22. OpenStreetMap is a free, editable and open map of the world created by volunteers from across ...

urban spaces Putting women on the map: Feminist cartographers are filling in urban design data gaps Women mappers tend to add services such as hospitals, toilets and domestic violence shelters ...

Having a more diverse range of mappers "means we actually have richer information on those maps - not just for the women to use, but for everyone," Solis added.

Huddled at a pair of desktops in the corner of a Twin Oaks Middle School computer lab, eighth-graders Brooklyn Rentschler and Abby Gogolin mapped zebra-mussel-infested waters across Minnesota. Thei… ...

Crisis mappers see the experience not as a setback but as a valuable lesson. The take-home message, Kunce said, “is that if we’d done a couple things differently, the quality would have been ...

Conference organizers are asking mappers, academics, policy makers, developers, geo-hackers, business leaders and open geodata supporters to propose an idea for State of the Map US 2017. Any students, ...

Grand Theft Auto VI mappers are still working out the details of what we can expect from this map, and so far, it's looking massive.

When Miriam Gonzalez started contributing data to the world's biggest crowdsourced map from her Mexico City home five years ago, she found herself part of a rare and odd group of volunteers.