Towson State University, the Maryland Office of Planning and a Towson consultant are teaming up to create a series of computer land-use maps, based on the colorful images from a space satellite. The ...

SACRAMENTO All hail the map. It can give you directions, tell you what’s nearby and show you how your property compares with your neighbor’s. And when maps are digitized and put on a computer, they’re ...

Online mapping services were supposed to be a godsend for business travelers when they were introduced a few years ago. But for motorists like Diane Taub, the devil was in the turn-by-turn directions.

Imagine you are flying over Hartford, wearing a pair of magic glasses. The glasses show you things invisible to the eye as you look down from the airplane: the locations of sewer pipes and water mains ...

Combining conventional mapping with satellite imagery to show you the view around the corner or on the other side of the world, Google Maps provides free directions, panoramic street-level imagery and ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) thinks that today's computer maps of the Earth are inaccurate for its needs. So it recently awarded a grant to a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ...

Jan. 23 -- A computer model offers a grim picture of alikely side effect of a major Puget Sound-area earthquake: amassive tidal wave known as a tsunami hitting the sound at thespeed of a jetliner. "If ...

Truck movements are being monitored by computer as the SAR prepares for further developments in its transport and logistics industry. Using the Internet and a satellite-linked global positioning ...