“[Niantic Spatial]’s latest product is a model that it says can pinpoint your location on a map to within a few centimeters, based on a handful of snapshots of the buildings or other landmarks in view. The firm wants to use it to help robots navigate with greater precision in places where GPS is unreliable.”

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1134099/how-pokemon-go-is-helping-robots-deliver-pizza-on-time/

#maps #gischat #Mapstodon #Niantic #PokemonGo

RT @simongerman600
This website visualizes the 100,000 most popular Wikipedia articles as skyscrapers. I struggle to explain why but it is great fun. Have a guess what the most read article was in the last year!
Source: https://wikicity.app

#carto #maps #mapstodon

Rolled the releases for GNOME 50 today (a bit early, but I'll be busy all day tomorrow):

Maps 50.0
libshumate 1.6.0

and also a (small) bugfix 49.5 on the (old) stable branch.

Didn't yet do a write-up about the new stuff, guess that'll have to be done sometime soonish, too… 😎

#gnome #gnomemaps #mapstodon #gnome50 #libshumate

RE: https://en.osm.town/@seav/113304803929565557

Jay and Mark of Map Men had a #GeoGuessr rematch! (That Manchester gambit at the end was hilarious! 😆)

https://youtu.be/-tO2FiyjCbE

#MapMen #maps #Mapstodon #geography

Just rolled the RC tarballs for Maps and libshumate for the upcoming GNOME 50 relase

gnome-maps 50.rc
libshumate 1.6.rc

Changes include support for getting localized results for public transit routing (using Transitous).

#gnomemaps #libshumate #transitous #gnome #gnome50 #mapstodon