Realtor Ben Jones worries about losing township assessors. The assessors, one for each of Madison County's 14 townships, hold the statistics he needs to sell homes, like the value of land, property maps and tax ...

Gathered at the Nine Mile Curve Fire Station Monday, about 20 citizens looked over maps and voiced their concerns about zoning along the U.S. Highway 521 corridor.

An ambulance service offers to "map" rural homes in Cumbria to ensure they are found by sat nav systems.

Reports, eyewitness accounts and maps of the devastation in the Sichuan province of China.

A new draft Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Structure Plan will go out for public consultation this spring. 2008/04/02 00:00:00

New flood maps are under review by residents in Vermilion Parish. This is the first time since Hurricane Rita that Parish residents are getting solid information on how high they need to build homes.

Today, we walked the route of the Lichfield Canal. The canal is being restored by The Lichfield and Hatherton Canal Trust. It took us the best part of 4 hours in total. I've used the new My Maps feature on...

Maps: A Persian map of the area surrounding Sharif University of Technology in Tehran (which Farzaneh and me have mapped) is now image of the week on OpenStreetMap and appears on the project’s front page. Nice! OSM’s infrastructure is great, but more mappers and developers are definitely needed and are quite welcome. Getting involved in the project is highly recommended if you love maps, own a GPS device, or like trying your hand on hacking map-related software like map renderers an...

Mind maps are a really effective way of organizing information and ideas. I have used them for brainstorming, note taking, studying. They organize data in a hierarchical way, using a lot of nonconventional notations that seem to motivate your creative side. Usually the greatest value lies in the process of creating the specific mind map instead of the mind map itself. Most of the time I just scratch something on a piece of paper and then throw the paper away. Recently I have started using a com...

MapMachine allows you to find nearly any place on Earth, and view it by population, climate, and much more. Plus, browse antique maps, find country facts, or plan your next outdoor adventure with our trail maps.

Actor Bill Murray talks to the BBC about his role in Oscar-nominated film Lost In Translation.

Actor Bill Murray talks to the BBC about his role in Oscar-nominated film Lost In Translation.