Microsoft Flight Simulator is renowned not only as a flight experience but also for creating one of the most realistic digital maps of the entire planet. The journey began decades ago, long before ...

Have you ever needed to instantly find out what time it is in Tokyo, Paris or Sydney? Perhaps you are on an important business call, you want to catch up with family or you are simply watching a live ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

A team has created the most complete map of the world's rivers ever made offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and water resource management in a warming world.

Contrary to the map ... globe onto a flat surface isn’t possible without some distortion. This is especially obvious for maps that use certain projections—ways of representing the Earth ...

Leduc World’s first mission to map the globe’s forests in 3D from space will use cutting ... is set to become the first in the world to measure the condition of the Earth's forests from space. This ...

Earth Day will be celebrated around the world on Tuesday ... List of Cities Hosting Events for Earth Day 2025 Cities all over the globe are hosting events to celebrate Earth Day on Tuesday ...

Forests cover some 3.9 billion hectares (or 9.6 billion acres) which is approximately 30% of the world's land surface ... The northern forest circles the globe through Russia, Scandinavia ...

Maxar’s 3D globe, totaling 125 petabytes ... 2D data from satellites into a 3D world,” says Wilczynski. Among its biggest customers for the 3D Earth data is the U.S. Army, which pays Maxar ...

Google announced Thursday it will begin showing the Earth as a globe rather than ... struggling with this. Apple Maps is currently still showing a flat view of the world. For what it's worth ...

You may think you have a pretty good idea of the world map ... The hidden globe is a kind of transfiguration of this map, an accretion of cracks and concessions, suspensions and abstractions ...

There are holes in the map of the world we all know. The globe may be divided into 193 ... Are we just going to see existing nation-states on Earth planting flags in space, or will companies ...