Want to get an idea what your neighborhood would look like if that proposed apartment building or retail complex goes up on your street? The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC) is creating ...

Getting a solid GPS location in a city can be tough thanks to all the tall buildings. Skyscrapers reflect the GPS signal and can make your location data go crazy, but now, Google says it can correct ...

CAMP LESTER, Okinawa — A Japanese firm that specializes in 3D mapping of historic buildings wants to create a virtual memory of a condemned U.S. military landmark before it’s demolished. Ikemiya ...

With the GlobalBuildingAtlas, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has created the first high-resolution 3D map of all buildings worldwide. The open data provides a crucial ...

Back in 2014, Google began crowdsourcing developers to help in its ambitious journey of using computer vision to scan building interiors and digitally recreate the physical world in marriage between ...

Avi Cieplinski, the former Apple engineer who co-invented the 3D Touch and Taptic Engine iPhone features, has joined mapping startup Mapbox to create AR software tools. Mapbox does not make a mapping ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — As the convoy commander for a route never before traversed by coalition forces, you are tasked to move an entire brigade combat team through both manmade structures and ...

The sun planning app Sun Quest just meshed the sun's path with 3D mapping to predict shadows ...

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map. Reading time 3 minutes The world has a lot of buildings. Now you can see them ...