Tag: Map

What are Source Maps Source maps are files with names ending with .map (for example, example.min.js.map and styles.css.map). They can be generated by most build tools, for example, Vite, webpack, Rollup, Parcel, esbuild, and more. Most of the time, our p...

Hey reader, hope you are doing good despite the pandemic giving us the “sit idle at home and regret your life decisions” thoughts. Today’s post would be small but quite interesting. I hope you are excited, so let’s get started! Prerequisites: Copy-paste feature on your ...

The Dutch referred to 1672 as the Rampjaar, or the ‘Disaster Year’. Conflicts erupted on multiple fronts. To the southwest the French declared the Franco-Dutch War, seeking to increase their political influence over the Spanish Netherlands. At the same time, England launched th...

This article is part of our Ultimate Queensland Street Art Road Trip — From Brisbane to Cairns series, but it is written to be useful whether you’re going to visit Cairns street art only, or you’re going to check it out as part of a full-on East Coast road trip. Ju...

This article is a guide to the companies building the generative artificial intelligence technology that will lead to these virtual worlds (games, simulations, metaverse applications). Existing market maps describing the landscape for generative AI lack a convincing organization, instead see...

During the last month, I’ve moved to Barcelona after living in Lyon for the last 5 years. Being one of the prettiest Spanish cities, its popularity and location make it the perfect destination for tourists from all around the planet, but this reputation also has a “dark side&rd...

The original plan was to fly from London to Lion, France to visit a friend and family. This idea was compromised and I flew to Glasgow, Scotland instead. I travelled to Edinburgh by train after a few weeks in Glasgow. This whole trip was a rollercoaster of emotions — from feeling saf...

The original plan was to fly from London to Lion, France to visit a friend and family. This idea was compromised and I flew to Glasgow, Scotland instead. This trip was a rollercoaster of emotions — from feeling safe and at home, to feeling like a total outsider and misunderstood. Gla...

It’s an image that hangs in countless history classrooms (or occupies a slide in teachers’ PowerPoints, at least). The Roman Empire, for some reason always salmon-colored, clearly delineated on a map. The boundaries of the empire look so precise; we see Roman territory and non-Roman terr...

After ordering Apple Watch Ultra on the launch day, I started to get doubts about whether it would live up to the promise of being a great running and hiking watch. On the top of my list was the question: How well would the offline maps work when hiking? Now after usi...

Hivemapper’s frequently updated, street-level map imagery offers an innovative approach. With Hivemapper’s Map Image API, real estate firms can instantly access a continual stream of fresh imagery across cities and neighborhoods. This on-demand visibility makes it possible to consis...

The logistics industry, particularly long-haul trucking, relies heavily on precise and efficient route planning. Traditional mapping solutions, while foundational, can’t keep pace with dynamic changes such as road constructions and lane closures, leading to delays and increased operational cos...

New York City Subway, operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), is the seventh busiest rapid transit rail system in the world, and the busiest in the US, with over 1.7 billion riders in 2012. Including the Staten Island Railway, the system provides service 24 hours a day...

If you are lucky enough to have lidar (light detection and ranging) equipment on your mobile robot, you can use lidar data to localize the robot (define its pose) and simultaneously map the environment around it. In short, you can perform simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). To build a m...

In 1937, astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky noticed that the movement of galaxies in the “Coma Cluster” was somewhat strange. The average speed of the galaxies was too high. It was so high that these galaxies should have dispersed in different directions long ago. Zwicky calculated the mass of ...

There has always been something so fascinating about stars: the way they shine, align into constellations, hold so much unknown… Among many things, humans have been interested in mapping out stars since the dawn of time. Star charts have been used primarily for navigation but are also useful ...

“Ancestral Indian” represents the original inhabitants of India, who preceded both the Indus Valley Civilization and the Aryan Invasion. It was derived by subtracting East Asian ancestry from an Andamese Islander reference. “Ancient Iranian” represents a hunter-gatherer po...

Below is a simplified genetic breakdown of major Pakistani populations using modified Gedmatch-Harappa data. There are similar figures floating around online, but they tend to suffer from a couple of issues. Specifically, inadequate sampling of different Pakistani ethnicities, and lack of comparison...

Last week, I had an opportunity to attend the conference hosted by the American Association of Bangladeshi Pharmaceutical Scientists (AABPS) in Bethesda, Maryland. At the conference, I talked to people from the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA. During those conversations, I found that most of the...

It’s an image that hangs in countless history classrooms (or occupies a slide in teachers’ PowerPoints, at least). The Roman Empire, for some reason always salmon-colored, clearly delineated on a map. The boundaries of the empire look so precise; we see Roman territory and non-Roman terr...

In my year and a half at Esri, I’ve learned a great deal. Coming into the GIS world with a math and computer science background, adapting to the geospatial technology world has been a bit challenging. I’ve learned many new things, and in this article, I will share one of the cool tr...