This engineering blog from a Google Maps Premier Partner walks developers and fleet operators through Google's Large Vehicle Routing and Roads Management Insights products, with code-oriented tutorials and commentary on what they mean for the routing and transport analytics business. Readers get a practical overview of truck routing and traffic data APIs, plus a long series of related Routes and Route Optimization API guides.
Website: https://blog.afi.io/
Alasdair Pedley, a professional orienteering mapper, shares behind-the-scenes practice on making orienteering maps, from tendering and base-mapping with LiDAR and photogrammetry to fine cartographic details. Each issue explains specific mapping techniques and the reasoning behind them, with examples drawn from real projects.
Mark Stosberg writes about mapping, spatial analysis and tech from Bloomington, Indiana, with posts on Linux tools like Fuzzel and keyboard shortcuts and local traffic safety analysis such as crash data on Law Lane. Readers get practical technical tips alongside data-driven local civic reporting.
Odyssey Maps is a developer's newsletter about its map-based storytelling apps for the ancient world, including the Polis Inventory app of ancient city data. Issues cover app updates, data corrections such as a revised location for ancient Methone, and press mentions.
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