Google is planning to sell new mapping APIs that would allow companies to build products that use energy and environmental data. The company has data on over 350 million buildings, according to ...

Maps have long helped us navigate, visualize and make sense of the world. And today, maps are no longer just a depiction of the world — they are an underlying infrastructure to it. They power routing, ...

How would you go about identifying usable land that suits your building tastes? [Scott Sexton] was specifically looking for land that’s not too steep to build on, and realized that existing resources ...

Learning and interpreting the structure of the environment is an innate feature of biological systems, and is integral to guiding flexible behaviors for evolutionary viability. The concept of a ...

Accurate and comprehensive building data is critical for urban management and planning. Existing datasets, such as those from Microsoft and OpenStreetMap, often lack completeness and accuracy in East ...