Maps

A new report shows that FEMA's flood hazard maps may be dangerously outdated.

• By Michael Isaac Stein

The American Museum of Natural History has enlisted coders to build visualizations of its massive amounts of ecological data.

• By Jessica Leber

A new report finds that a drop in the prison population doesn't necessarily mean a drop in prison costs.

• By Kate Wheeling

Texas' laws, which are now being debated in the Supreme Court, are part of a larger trend nationwide.

• By Francie Diep

A group of tech savvy individuals are using their skills to create solutions to some of our biggest problems.

• By Faine Greenwood

A new mapping technique could help public officials make the case to ban smoking in public areas.

• By Bettina Chang

Geography-based passwords may be the future of online security.

• By Paul Bisceglio

Some recent attempts to quantify the chaos.

• By Lauren Kirchner

Mathematicians propose using the “Lévy flight” model to reveal and police hotspots of crime.

• By Lauren Kirchner

Before Mapquest and Google, there was the "electric directory."

• By Matt Novak