News

New features include detailed planning and guidance for custom hikes, the ability to save the maps offline, elevation details, and more. Here’s how to use Apple Maps topographic hiking trails.
Thanks to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we can now see the Moon’s mountains and craters in unprecedented detail. This beautiful topographic map is going to be an invaluable resource in ...
Social media conversation is like a topographic map and the Pew Research Center is creating intense, visually-rich "maps" or charts to show you how. According to a new 57-page report entitled ...
Just months after naming AllTrails the iPhone App of the Year in 2023, Apple has added new hiking features of its own to the Maps app on iOS 18.. Apple Maps users in the U.S. can browse thousands ...
The near-global topographic map was constructed from 69,000 WAC stereo models and covers the latitude range 79°S to 79°N, 98.2 percent of the entire lunar surface.
TAMPA, Fla. — Hurricane Milton is expected to bring deadly levels of storm surge at 10 to 15 feet and between 5 to 12 inches of rain to Tampa as it nears landfall late Wednesday night into ...
(2016, September 1). 3-D elevation maps of Alaska for released for White House Arctic Initiative. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 09 ...
Why the moon looks like a potato on NASA’s new eclipse maps. The newer mapping method takes elevation on Earth and the moon’s topography into consideration. September 29, 2024.
Geographers around the world have a powerful new tool at their disposal: the most accurate large-scale topographical map of Earth’s surface ever created. Two German-built satellites, TanDEM-X and ...