When was the last time you planned a backpacking trip without a computer, phone, or GPS unit? Think hard. Unless you're a dedicated old-schooler, it probably wasn't recently. If your map skills are ...

SANTA CLARA, CA – May 8, 2012 – Magellan, a leader of innovative GPS devices for vehicles, outdoor and mobile navigation, today announced the availability of National Geographic's TOPO!, the most ...

We have in the past looked at a lot of content provided by the USGS. The USGS is the provider of the data for the ‘earthquakes layer’ in Google Earth. We also looked at some of their future plans, ...

OFFICIAL large-scale maps are available for comparatively few parts of the world outside western and central Europe, including the British Isles, the eastern United States, India, much of Burma, ...

An instrument aboard the Terra satellite has generated the most complete digital topographic map of the Earth ever made, covering 99% of the planet The most complete digital topographic map of the ...

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