National-scale maps of earthquake shaking hazards provide information essential to creating and updating the seismic design provisions of building codes used in the United States. The timing of ...

Under Lucky Stars, a star map company that allows ... it scores a 1 on the Bortle scale and has virtually no artificial light pollution. Redwood National & State Parks (a national park service ...

Two years ago, a Montana think tank called the Frontier Institute released a new tool to help push the group’s advocacy for pro-housing reforms: a zoning atlas, one of the first of its kind. The ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been tracking tornadoes for decades. Our interactive map, which contains data from January 1950 to July 31, 2023, pinpoints where a cyclone ...

Scientists led by the China Agricultural University have created a national-scale map and dataset of ground-mounted PV power stations in China. The data is based on Sentinel-2 imagery from 2020 ...

Giulia Carbonaro is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her focus is on the U.S. economy, housing market, property insurance market, local and national politics. She has previously ...

This clip demonstrates how to use the scale of a map to calculate distance. JOE CROWLEY: Because maps are drawn to scale they’re perfect for working out the exact distance between two features ...

In February, Google had requested approval from the Korean National Geographic Information Institute to deploy a 1:5,000 scale map on its app in the country and to transfer that data to its ...