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F1 fans: now you can get a fully interactive 3D map of all the F1 tracks on the 2026 schedule as well as all the team factories — together with tons of interesting facts about each track and team. Visit maphappenings.com/f1 .

The map was built using the mapping platform Elemap (elemap.com) which provides a super easy way to publish interactive maps and data. It’s kind of like Squarespace, only for interactive maps.

A little known startup based in London called POSTX is providing a next-generation Logistic-as-a-Service platform with geospatial excellence at its core.

Across twelve concise essays, the author traces the evolution of mapping from Paleolithic carvings to iPhone screens. The scope is ambitious, covering millennia, but the tone remains grounded—welcoming even. This isn’t a dry academic slog; it’s a personal, occasionally wry, journey through the strange, stubborn, and often brilliant ways humans have tried to not be completely, hopelessly lost.

Friday February 7, 2025 at 7pm Pacific time, marks an anniversary. That precise time will be the 20th anniversary of the launch of Google Maps. And what a journey it has been. Not only for all the hard working folks at Google, but also for the billions of human beings on this planet that have benefited from this ubiquitous geographic platform.

For the full story visit MapHappenings.com

Heads up digitizing means digitizing the road vectors on top of an image. In Etak's case we used 5 bits to display the image and 3 bits to display the vectors on top. Prior to this invention people used a method of tablet digitizing (similar to https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-tablets) which was much slower and more error prone (and thus less accurate).