A few months ago, John Keefe wrote a Poynter.org How To about using shapefiles. The power of the shapefile, he wrote, is the ability to refer to regions instead of points. But what if your data has ...

Yakima police Detective Drew Shaw believes all homicide cases can be solved eventually. “Every murder has someone out there who knows something or heard something,” said Shaw, who was on YPD’s Major ...

Google has unveiled a new set of AI-powered tools for Google Maps Platform that enables developers to create interactive, map-based projects in minutes, using natural‑language prompts rather than ...

A research team led by UC San Diego has created an interactive map of preterm births - births before 37 weeks of gestation - and potential environmental and social drivers across Fresno County in ...

R has some excellent mapping options. There is the leaflet R package, which I use when I want to do a lot of customization. There is tmap, which I like for its nice balance between power and ease of ...

Scientists have mapped the effects of war, colonization, trade, migration and slavery on the genetic mixing of humans over the bulk of recorded history and created an online interactive atlas of ...

A map from the University of Illinois at Chicago allows you to see if pollution is nearby. Chicago Public Schools students in predominantly Latino communities are being disproportionately impacted by ...

An interactive "supermap" that portrays the mutations and spread of the avian flu around the globe over time should help researchers and policy makers better understand the virus and anticipate ...

UC Berkeley's Othering & Belonging Institute launched an interactive map of California on March 28 displaying consolidated information on coronavirus cases and other community factors. Created by ...

Howard Avenue between South and Rutger Streets, Hazelhurst Avenue and Spruce Street are officially among the Utica streets with the worst paving. The City of Utica has, in fact, assessed every stretch ...