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A developer launched Unfenced, a website that lets users browse an interactive map of US states to find private property listings that border public land. Users can hover or tap states to see measured data, then click through to view specific properties for sale.
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Collaboration has compiled the largest three-dimensional map of the universe to date, using measurements from millions of galaxies and quasars. Early analysis of the data suggests that dark energy, long assumed to be a constant force, may actually vary over cosmic time, a finding that challenges standard cosmological assumptions.
Airbnb unveiled a fall update introducing a Travel Map that lets users see friends' past and upcoming trips, reviews and wishlists, with adjustable privacy controls for sharing trip details. The update also adds neighborhood summaries built from guest and host data, plus AI-powered search, filters, listing descriptions and customer support tools launching first in the US. Airbnb is also expanding its Services section with meal delivery in Europe and laundry, baby gear and local activity rentals in select US cities.
An online geography game called Borderline has compiled roughly 37,500 crowd-sourced drawings of country borders and coastlines, aggregating them into a visual map that overlays every submitted outline against the real one. The project breaks results down by country, drawing type (land border, coastline, or daily challenge round), and includes median accuracy scores and error rates for each nation.
Security researcher Joshua Michael found a flaw in Flock's website that exposed an access token without login credentials, letting him query ArcGIS and pull a database of camera locations in November 2025. He used that data to build the Flock Surveillance Map, listing 335,701 camera locations, and Flock has now filed a trademark infringement complaint seeking to take the site down.
Climate researchers have released a new map showing how an unusually powerful El Niño weather pattern is expected to alter conditions across different regions worldwide. The map identifies areas likely to see the most significant disruptions to rainfall, temperature and storm activity as the phenomenon intensifies.
A geothermal heat map compares subsurface heat flow across the United States, measured in milliwatts per square meter, against known locations of hot springs. The map shows the national average heat flow at roughly 65 milliwatts per square meter, with much of the western US running well above that level while the eastern US remains largely cooler.
A 192GB cache of internal Rockstar files, originally leaked in 2022, is now being combed through by fans who found a rough 2014-2015 build of a GTA VI map running inside GTA V, along with an outline for a scrapped Liberty City expansion and details on a canceled single-player DLC called Agent Trevor. The Liberty City map is only accessible through the CodeWalker editor and contains no additional content beyond its outline, while the GTA VI map fragment appears built from satellite and street-view imagery.
A software developer shares an anecdotal pattern from years of code reviews: peers rarely object to map or filter functions, but frequently flag reduce as hard to read. The developer notes reduce appears far less often in codebases than similar array methods, despite personally preferring it.
A how-to guide walks readers through setting up an OpenStreetMap account, installing the JOSM editor, downloading local map data, and filtering it to find shops or amenities missing a website tag. The process guides contributors to add that missing link, a change that then propagates into the many free services built on OSM data.
A data visualization project has mapped every structure in Los Angeles as a 3D box color-coded by the decade it was constructed. Users can pan, rotate and tilt the view to watch the city's growth unfold chronologically from 1880 through 2026.
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument team has published an updated version of its Legacy Imaging Surveys, offering free public access to the largest three-dimensional map of the cosmos ever assembled. The dataset spans 5.6 trillion pixels and roughly 75 percent of the sky, cataloging about 4 billion stars, galaxies, black holes and asteroids captured in visible and near-infrared light.