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 ...

Cloud-based mapping service CartoDB has released a beta version of a new tool, Odyssey.js, that lets you create interactive maps in Markdown without knowing how to code. The open source tool lets you ...

For the last several years I’ve been showing Annie Leonard’s “The Story of Stuff” whenever I teach climate science to my students. I find it is interesting for them to think about where our “stuff” ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — One company is making 3D interactive maps of schools to let first responders know where to go in situations like fires or an active shooter, which coulddrastically reduce ...