#mapping data

Mapping HCL Digital Collections

You can now discover Hennepin County Library Digital Collections by geographic location! We’ve partnered with Hennepin County GIS to create a map of thousands of Minneapolis and Hennepin County photographs, postcards and restaurant menus from our Special Collections. 

Use the color-coded points to browse items by address (blue), neighborhood (green), or city (orange). When a specific address is not known, items are mapped to the center of the associated neighborhood or city. Click on the link in the pop-up window to view the image in the Digital Collections. Check out the about section for more navigation tips.

How to use all of Apple Maps’ new features

On January 30th, Apple announced that their redesigned Maps, with new features and faster, more accurate navigation and comprehensive views of roads, buildings, parks, airports, malls and more, had rolled out to the entire United States. Next, Apple Maps will begin rolling it out across Europe in the coming months. Building on the new mapping data, iOS 13 introduced many new features that help…

Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for all U.S. users

Apple today delivers to all users in the United States a new redesigned Maps app with faster, more accurate navigation and comprehensive views of roads, buildings, parks, airports, malls and more, making it easier and more enjoyable to map out any journey. Apple completed the rollout of this new Maps experience in the United States and will begin rolling it out across Europe in the coming months.

Totally rebuilt, greatly improved Apple Maps now available in Texas, Louisiana, and southern Mississippi

Apple is rolling out new Maps with richer details and better road coverage.

Apple’s Maps app is being rebuilt from the ground upto better reflect the world around you. The new underlying map uses Apple data and features enhanced geographic context like pedestrian paths and parks, more detailed building outlines and parking lots, better road network coverage, and more. You’ll also be able to get…

In iOS 13: Apple’s working hard to shed Maps’ bad reputation

Apple is rolling out new Maps with richer details and better road coverage.

Jason Cross for Macworld:

Apple has a bad reputation with maps. Seven years ago, Apple replaced Google Maps with its own Apple Maps service in iOS 6, and the rollout was nothing short of disastrous. Apple Maps was inferior to Google Maps in every way: features, stability, accuracy, performance—you name it. It took two…

ODI advises UK to force Google, Apple and Uber to share mapping data

[cfsp key=”getamac.jpg”]”The UK government should force Google, Apple, Uber and others to share their mapping data so that other companies can develop autonomous cars, drones and transport apps, according to an influential campaign group,” Aliya Ram and Madhumita Murgia report for Financial Times.

“The Open Data Institute, co-founded by Tim Berners-Lee at MIT and Nigel Shadbolt, artificial…