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.
Facebook has used a combination of existing GIS data, high resolution imagery, and artificial intelligence to develop a detailed population map of the world.
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.
NOAA has released an updated map of the Earth, showing light sources at night from street lights, oil and gas drilling, wildfires, volanic activity, and skyglow.
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
Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off on February 11, 2000 and one of its missions is an ambitious mapping of the earth.