No audio available for this content. Time. Ask anyone what time means to them, and they will give you a different answer. Benjamin Franklin famously stated that “time is money.” Time for the surveyor ...

If you've ever zoomed around the globe with Google Earth, you know how much fun it can be to work with geospatial data. When I need a diversion, I often fire up Google Earth and float above the ...

It's the rare idea that's both potentially transformative and simple enough to describe in a single sentence: Divide the surface of the planet into roughly 57 million three-by-three-meter squares, ...

To represent geographical data in a browser, you have several options: SVG is very well suited due to its flexible coordinate system, and data can be drawn as a raster image using canvas. The easiest ...