The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as ...

New analysis of street-level data across sub-Saharan Africa shows how access to infrastructure dramatically improves the ...

FOR ALL but the well-off, living in an African city can be dispiriting. Home is often a cramped shack in a fetid slum. Getting to work, if there is any, means navigating rutted streets and manic ...

In 2012, when Moses Aloo inherited a plot from his grandfather, his neighbourhood in Kisumu, western Kenya, had plenty of farmland. But over the past decade, as Kisumu has grown, Nyamasaria has become ...

Using the first complete dataset of more than 415 million buildings across 50 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, researchers at the University of Chicago created an unprecedented approach to urban ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said most maps skew the size of land masses, making Africa seem much smaller ...

Google street view (GSV) imagery is transforming scientist’s ability to document changes in global landscapes and societies. However, when addressing the development of street view applications today ...