Buildings are getting greener and greener. Their roofs sport solar panels. Their appliances run more efficiently. Their light bulbs use less energy. But there’s one more thing buildings can do to ...

How would you go about identifying usable land that suits your building tastes? [Scott Sexton] was specifically looking for land that’s not too steep to build on, and realized that existing resources ...

A number of research institutions are currently developing systems in which autonomous robots could be sent into places such as burning buildings, to create a map of the floor plan for use by waiting ...

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 ...

Esri has released ArcGIS 10.2 Runtime SDKs, providing a set of tools for developers to embed dynamic mapping and geospatial technology into existing applications or build native, focused, client ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT researchers have built a wearable sensor system that automatically creates a digital map of the environment through which the wearer is moving. The prototype system, described in ...

The scale of the effort sets it apart from previous mapping attempts. According to UNILAD, researchers at the Technical ...