Maps are an especially powerful lens through which to understand history, connecting our world through one of its two fundamental organizing dimensions. Yet, what would history look like without ...

Waze started in Tel Aviv in 2006 as an open-source mapping project called Freemap and today claims 14 million drivers around the world. Users create Wikipedia-style maps of world Home Page ...

“We plan to offer Scout with OSM for much of the world. We have already made significant headway toward this goal in the U.S., including using OSM for our HTML5 version of Scout.” OSM is the only ...

Maps is filled with endlessly useful info about the places around you, while Wikipedia is the end-all resource for interesting info about virtually anything.

And anyone can use the maps — to find their way or to build their own map-based apps — for free. Conceived in the U.K. in the early 2000s by a lone British programmer, the service has since grown to a ...

Reading Wikipedia just got a whole lot more fun. A new game called "Wikipedia: The text adventure" helps you navigate and learn more about the world using a clever modification of the online ...

TORONTO - Google is taking inspiration from Wikipedia and inviting Canadians to scan Google Maps in their hometowns and make improvements where needed.

When Benjamin Gleitzman moved from New York to the San Francisco Bay area, he used a talking turn-by-turn driving app to guide him across the country. In the middle of Wyoming, the voice told him ...