New York, for example, has 39 maps, beginning with a digital recreation of Manhattan prior to European colonization ("1609 Mannahatta"), running through the colonial era, nineteenth and twentieth ...

While the map is the cornerstone of the project, it's by no means the only feature of the project. True to its name, Understanding Homelessness offers a sort of primer on the issue — what ...

How are mapping projects changing the way that we understand our history of racism, segregation and prejudice in America? A number of digital projects are now using GIS (geographic information ...

Open sourcing the project, ... The updates to the framework available today make it possible to go beyond maps, to visual data sets from ... Uber has provided examples of how it can be used ...