Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Here is a first glimpse at what whole-of-earth happiness mapping looks ...

In 1375, a Spanish mapmaker made a world map we now refer to as the Catalan Atlas. For its time, the atlas was remarkably ...

GPS and airborne light detection and ranging (lidar) have revolutionized archaeology. In just a little more than a decade, dozens of previously hidden cities and settlements have been discovered under ...

TOKYO, Japan, January 15, 2022 (ENS) – Much has changed since the early days of oceanic bathymetry, the study of the seafloor, when simple soundings were taken by hand with a rope and weight. Today, ...

There's nothing like Deutsche Bank's annual "Mapping the world's prices" report, released every May, to highlight the differences in the cost of living in 50 major cities across the globe. From the ...

If you believe tech optimists, 10 years from now self-driving cars will be ubiquitous, drones will deliver our parcels, and robots will bring us our groceries. And one day soon, our cities will be ...

Author Simon Garfield loves maps. His home in London is full of them — that's where they're stocked, hanging on walls and piled on shelves. So when Garfield was looking for a new topic to write about, ...

In the nearly 20 years since the Balkan conflicts, the women of the Krusha e Madhe village in Kosovo have been trying to rebuild their community and lives. But they lack access to land rights systems, ...