GIS and Artificial Intelligence Used to Build Facebook’s World Population Map
Facebook has used a combination of existing GIS data, high resolution imagery, and artificial intelligence to develop a detailed population map of the world.
Help Bearded Germans with Their Bucketlist Map
This kickstarter project by German bearded cartographers Simon Schuetz and Lars Sieffert seeks funding to create a global map shows the world’s bucketlist locations.
New Map of the Earth’s Night Lights
NASA has released an update of its popular Earth at Night composite imagery. The last global composite of the earth’s night lights was created in … Read more
7 Billion: Statistics and Map of the World’s Population
Depending on which source you reference, the world has either just passed or will shortly pass the 7 billion mark in terms of the total … Read more
Mapping the Earth – the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off on February 11. One of its missions is an ambitious mapping of the earth. Approximately 80 percent of the Earth will be mapped, an area that covers 95 percent of the Earth’s population.