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How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril - in maps and charts https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/dec/18/how-climate-breakdown-is-putting-the-worlds-food-in-per…

New maps that added
five Republican districts in Texas
hit a legal roadblock on Tuesday,
with a federal judge saying
the state cannot use the 2025 maps
because they are probably “racially gerrymandered”.
The decision is likely to be appealed,
given the push for more Republican-friendly congressional maps nationwide
and Donald Trump’s full-court press on his party to make them.
A panel of three federal judges in Texas said in a decision t…

61 European alternatives to Google, X, Gmail, Chrome, Maps, DropBox, Google Drive, WhatsApp, and other popular services https://www.xataka.com/basics/61-alternativas-europeas-a-google-x-gmail-chrome-maps-dr…

this is kind of amazing: a handdrawn 2002 attempt to map every #surveillance camera in times square & midtown #nyc, by the surveillance camera players, activist/prankster group. feel like these #maps would bot…

Very detailed map of the Milky Way galaxy
https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/posts/space/very-detailed-map-of-the-milky-way-galaxy

What a brilliant idea to have an animated/interactive cartogram of the world’s population! 🗺️
#maps

Mit Google Maps - Junges Paar wollte mit Auto auf Dachstein fahren #News #Nachrichten

really great that we have a government made up of criminals who purposefully completely ignore this for personal gain https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/dec/18/how-climate-breakdown-is-putting-the-worlds-food-in-peril-in-maps-and-charts

celegans_interactomes: C. elegans interactomes (2009)
Ten networks of protein-protein interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), from yeast two-hybrid experiments, biological process maps, literature curation, orthologous interactions, and genetic interactions. The WI8 network combines WI2004, WI2007 and BPmaps, while the Integrated Network combines data from all sources.
This network has 431 nodes and 438 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

from my link log —
International maps of cities coloured by street/road/ave/etc.
https://erdavis.com/2019/09/20/the-beautiful-hidden-logic-of-cities-worldwide/
saved 2019-10-21

The Beautiful Hidden Logic of Cities –Worldwide
The response to The Beautiful Hidden Logic of Cities was way more positive than I ever expected! There’s been some demand for prints–they’re available now on Society6. If you̵…

Trump doing Putin's work, absolutely horrifying, big respect for Zelensky, who stays "cool" , at least in public.
https://www.ft.com/content/7960c6aa-dbfa-4a55-91e8-ae44601842ec

Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia
US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting

Google pimpt Maps für E-Auto-Fahrer:innen: Freie Ladesäulen werden angezeigt und KI soll jetzt voraussagen, wie voll die Ladesäulen bei Ankunft sind. Klingt praktisch – aber macht uns erneut abhängig von Googles Daten-Ökosystem. Komfort gegen Kontrollverlust, die x-te Runde.
#googlemaps #Digitalisierung

Where the U.S. Is Building Up Military Force in the Caribbean (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/politics/trump-caribbean-venezuela-us-military-maps.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uU8.gwpB.dZBKoguSOH1R&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251018/p33#a251018p33

#Google's review system has become a pure joke!
Whenever you say anything negative, whether on Google Maps or the Play Store, your review gets blocked or hidden... what a joke 🤦 🙄
W - T - F
#wtf

Google Maps: Gemini navigiert via Sprache
Wo ist...? Wo muss ich lang? Wo bin ich? Diese und weitere Fragen beantwortet in Google Maps künftig Gemini via Sprache.
https://www.heise.de/news/Google-Maps…

celegans_interactomes: C. elegans interactomes (2009)
Ten networks of protein-protein interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), from yeast two-hybrid experiments, biological process maps, literature curation, orthologous interactions, and genetic interactions. The WI8 network combines WI2004, WI2007 and BPmaps, while the Integrated Network combines data from all sources.
This network has 2724 nodes and 14322 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted…

The Supreme Court appears ready to strike down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act,
threatening the equal representation of Black voters,
and potentially greenlighting Republican gerrymandering ahead of the 2026 midterm election.
The case concerns Louisiana’s six congressional districts,
two of which are majority-Black,
in approximate proportion to the Black population of the state.
A previous map that gave Black voters only one district in which the…

Will Supreme Court Gut Voting Rights Act & Weaken Electoral Power of Black Americans?
The Supreme Court appears ready to strike down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, threatening the equal representation of Black voters, and potentially greenlighting Republican gerrymandering ahead of the 2026 midterm election. The case concerns Louisiana’s six congressional districts, two of which are majority-Black, in approximate proportion to the Black population of the state. A previous map that gave Black voters only one district in which they were a majority was ruled to have vio…

Google, ESPN reach deal before Cowboys-Raiders MNF? All Week 11 TV viewing maps https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/15/nfl-week-11-tv-viewing-maps-espn-youtube-tv-agreement/8729189…

Google unveils new features for Pixel phones, including AI-powered notification summaries, notification prioritization, and AI photo edits in Messages (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/11/goog

Google Pixel update adds battery-saving maps mode, AI photo remixing, and smarter notifications | TechCrunch
Google says the new power saving mode for Google Maps can save you up to four hours of battery life

The Inner Workings of JavaScript Source Maps
A deep dive into how JavaScript source maps work under the hood, with examples showing how all the pieces fit together.
🧑‍💻 https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2025/11/04/javascript-source-maps-interna…

The Inner Workings of JavaScript Source Maps
A deep dive into how JavaScript source maps work under the hood, with examples showing how all the pieces fit together.

Great 'text on maps' work presented by Katie and Bert #FF2025
Katie posted: If you want to play around with our text on maps data viz interface the link is https://text-on-maps-viz.allmaps.worke

An interesting write up of an interview with the Edinburgh Spokes cycle campaign.
"Spokes also started producing cycle maps at that point [in the 80s]. Partly you produce a cycle map to show people where the nice places are, whether it's off road routes, quiet streets or whatever, to just show them that it is possible."
"But it's also a campaigning tool, because the map shows you the gaps."

"If your campaigning doesn't generate a response, you're not being radical enough": Active travel campaigners Spokes on making spaces bike friendly
road.cc chat with the organisation as they release their new cycle map of West Lothian and discuss meaningful cycle campaigning after nearly 50 years

In a tense meeting at the White House on Friday,
Trump tossed aside maps of the front line,
and urged Kyiv to concede its entire Donbas region to Russia to clinch a deal
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is rallying the support of his European partners
after the bruising meeting with Trump,
in which he was told to make concessions to end the war or risk facing destruction at the hands of Russia.


After tense Trump meeting, Zelensky seeks European support
In an often fraught encounter, Trump told Zelensky to accept Putin’s latest deal or face destruction at Russian hands, according to those familiar with events.

Enhancing the Quality of 3D Lunar Maps Using JAXA's Kaguya Imagery
Yumi Iwashita, Haakon Moe, Yang Cheng, Adnan Ansar, Georgios Georgakis, Adrian Stoica, Kazuto Nakashima, Ryo Kurazume, Jim Torresen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11817

Enhancing the Quality of 3D Lunar Maps Using JAXA's Kaguya Imagery
As global efforts to explore the Moon intensify, the need for high-quality 3D lunar maps becomes increasingly critical-particularly for long-distance missions such as NASA's Endurance mission concept, in which a rover aims to traverse 2,000 km across the South Pole-Aitken basin. Kaguya TC (Terrain Camera) images, though globally available at 10 m/pixel, suffer from altitude inaccuracies caused by stereo matching errors and JPEG-based compression artifacts. This paper presents a method to improv…

I have begun a new journey to shift away from software hosted on GitHub.
What I did so far:
Lemmy - piefed
Organic maps - Comaps
Mastodon will be next. Maybe I'll go with akkoma or Sharkey
#git #github

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
AVON: We, have the gold.
TARRANT: We're well ahead of schedule.
AVON: We are going to need to be. We have to put Scorpio down on Beta Five, unload the gold, and get Scorpio back into orbit. All before they arrive.

MAPS: Masked Attribution-based Probing of Strategies- A computational framework to align human and model explanations
Sabine Muzellec, Yousif Kashef Alghetaa, Simon Kornblith, Kohitij Kar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12141

MAPS: Masked Attribution-based Probing of Strategies- A computational framework to align human and model explanations
Human core object recognition depends on the selective use of visual information, but the strategies guiding these choices are difficult to measure directly. We present MAPS (Masked Attribution-based Probing of Strategies), a behaviorally validated computational tool that tests whether explanations derived from artificial neural networks (ANNs) can also explain human vision. MAPS converts attribution maps into explanation-masked images (EMIs) and compares image-by-image human accuracies on thes…

A family of non-simple surfaces whose transport twistor spaces admit global blow-down maps
Fran\c{c}ois Monard, Zhengyi Qi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09518 https://

A family of non-simple surfaces whose transport twistor spaces admit global blow-down maps
In the literature on X-ray transform and Transport Twistor (TT) spaces, blow-down maps (or maps with holomorphic blow-down structure as defined in [BMP24]) are maps that desingularize the degenerate complex structure of the TT space of an oriented Riemannian surface, while collapsing (yet separating) geodesics of the unit tangent bundle of that surface. Such maps were originally constructed in [BMP24] for near-constant curvature simple surfaces, showing that the interior of their TT space is bi…

Does Apple Maps not believe in Public Transportation?? I dont see a bus option in their Directions!
https://

Court rejection of rigged "racially gerrymandered" Republican #TX voting #redistricting maps hinged on #Drumpf #DOJ dubious declarations and h…

"Besuchte Orte"-Tracking in Apple Karten: Wo es geht – und wie
Nutzer von Google Maps können schon lange Ortsdaten automatisch speichern – manchmal gar unfreiwillig. Ein neues Feature für iOS 26 funktioniert nicht überall.

from my link log —
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants, and how I built a dashboard to see through it.
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?triedRedirect=true
saved…

How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

Should I be fully exploring these maps in Octopath Traveler?
The random encounters are making back tracking a real pain already at level 8
#videogames #octopath

Someone created a Hotel "Dharma initiative" on Google Maps. Its coordinates are of course 4° 8' 15" N, 16° 23' 42" E.
#lost

Weil es nur ganz unten im BZ-Newsletter steht: der Großbrand im Gewerbegebiet Freiburg-Hochdorf betrifft wohl diesen Gebäudekomplex: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Zo8q3DZH9j2B8pA97

Google Maps plans to replace Assistant with Gemini on Android and iOS, giving users a "hands-free, conversational driving experience", in the "coming weeks" (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/05/google-maps-gemini-navigation/

Google Maps gets Gemini for conversational navigation & traffic reporting on Android, iOS
In Google Maps, Gemini already exists in place listings, and it’s now coming to the navigation experience on Android and iOS.

Vertex-reversing maps and almost Sylow-cyclic groups
Cai Heng Li, Luyi Liu, Hanyue Yi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07033 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07033

Vertex-reversing maps and almost Sylow-cyclic groups
A map is \emph{vertex-reversing} if it admits an arc-transitive automorphism group with dihedral vertex stabilizers. This paper classifies solvable vertex-reversing maps whose edge number and Euler characteristic are coprime. The classification establishes that such maps comprise three families: dihedral maps, cyclic covers of dihedral maps, and cyclic covers of $S_4$-maps. Our classification based on an explicit characterization of finite almost Sylow-cyclic groups. While Conder--Potocnik--Ši…

"How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it"
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?utm_campaign=post

How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

My name is Heather, and I was one of the very first hires for Barack Obama’s campaign.
I know how to win the tough fights — because I’ve lived them.
Now I’m leading North Star PAC to stop billionaire Jeffrey Yass and the MAGA machine from buying Pennsylvania’s courts.
If they succeed in the state’s Supreme Court retention election, they’ll rig the maps and lock us out of power for decades — just like they did in Texas.
But I can’t do this without you. While Yass and…

Donate to North Star PAC
Show your support with a contribution.

A note on irreducibility for topical maps
Brian Lins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12522 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12522

A note on irreducibility for topical maps
Topical maps are a nonlinear generalization of nonnegative matrices acting on the interior of the standard cone $\mathbb{R}^n_{\ge 0}$. Several analogues of irreducibility have been defined for topical maps, and all are sufficient to guarantee the existence of entrywise positive eigenvectors. In this note, we organize several of these notions, showing which conditions are stronger and when different types of irreducibility are equivalent. We also consider how to computationally check the condit…

Geometric Constructions of Mod $p$ Cohomology Operations
Herng Yi Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12574 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12574

Geometric Constructions of Mod $p$ Cohomology Operations
The Brown Representability Theorem implies that cohomology operations can be represented by continuous maps between Eilenberg-Maclane spaces. These Eilenberg-Maclane spaces have explicit geometric models as spaces of cycles on round spheres and spaces of relative cycles on unit disks, due to the Almgren Isomorphism Theorem. A. Nabutovsky asked what maps between spaces of cycles represent the Steenrod squares. In this work we answer this question by constructing maps with explicit formulas fro…

Betaal jij meer of minder belasting dan Elon Musk?
https://maps.greenpeace.org/gpafrica/billionaire-taxometer/

The Billionaire Taxometer
Can you beat Musk at his own game?

Not surprised, Apple already has ads in the App Store.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/10/26/ads-likely-coming-to-apple-maps-in-2026

Interessante Info zu dem BIC Bürogebäude #Hasenheide 23-27, 10967 Berlin,
könnte auch aus dem Angebots '"Portfolio"' eines Immobilienmaklers stammen
Google-Rezension über BIC Bürogebäude
https://goo.gl/maps/ya…

Appreciate the nod that spatial data viz is hard, @…!
The motivation part about expensive GIS tools is a little off though 💸 :qgis:
https://m…

Completely taken by the 2025 Local Deprivation maps on gov.uk:
https://deprivation.communities.gov.uk/maps
These maps are painting such a sad & harsh picture of the country (well, at least of England)! Been spending the past hour or so checking out various places I've be…

Giorgio reports from the trenches of democracy on the ground in Ukraine.
He risks his life to report from the front lines so that the world might learn the truth of what is happening in Ukraine.
His is a singular voice that few others dare to experience, certainly not US media, who fail to do their job as the world is overrun with evil and lies.
Giorgio shares the friend link so the truth can be more easily shared. Please support Giorgio's work, and support Ukraine in …

The Front That’s Not On Maps
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

ever since google maps got powered by a different AI it's giving even better suggestions

Austria and Italy Finish Digging World’s Longest Rail Tunnel–Ready to Reshape Travel Maps https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/austria-and-italy-finish-digging-worlds-longest-rail-tunnel-ready-to-reshape-travel-maps/…

Austria and Italy Finish Digging World’s Longest Rail Tunnel–Ready to Reshape Travel Maps
The tunnel will take thousands of the more than 2 million trucks that cross the pass every year off the roads.

On the Mather stability theorem for smooth maps
Rustam Sadykov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10305 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10305

On the Mather stability theorem for smooth maps
In [MaII] Mather proved that a smooth proper infinitesimally stable map is stable. This result is the key component of the Mather stability theorem [MaV], which can be reformulated as follows: a smooth proper map $f: M\to N$ is stable if and only if it is infinitesimally stable if and only if it satisfies the Mather normal crossing condition. The latter condition, roughly speaking, means that all map germs of $f$ are stable and $f$ maps the singular strata of $f$ to $N$ in a mutually transversa…

Does spatialized audio enhance the creation of mental representations? Spoiler: No (for their SnapStick-based setup) https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2025.1660373/full "seven blind individuals and se…

Frontiers | Does spatialized audio enhance the creation of mental representations?
Navigating unfamiliar environments without vision is a considerable challenge for blind individuals, as it requires constructing accurate cognitive maps. Bin...

On the Number of Small Points for Rational Maps
Jit Wu Yap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12039 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12039…

On the Number of Small Points for Rational Maps
Let $K$ be a number field and $f: \mathbb{P}^1 \to \mathbb{P}^1$ a rational map of degree $d \geq 2$ with at most $s$ places of bad reduction, where we include all archimedean places. We prove that there exists constants $c_1,c_2 > 0$, depending only on $d$ and not on $f$ or $K$, such that $$ \# \left\{ x \in \mathbb{P}^1(K) \mid \widehat{h}_f(x) \leq \frac{c_1}{s} h_{\operatorname{rat}_d}(\langle f \rangle) \right\} \leq c_2 s \log(s). $$ Here, $\operatorname{rat}_d$ is the moduli space of rat…

Invariant volume form for 3D QRT maps
Jaume Alonso, Yuri B. Suris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11468 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11468

Invariant volume form for 3D QRT maps
Recently, we proposed a three-dimensional generalization of QRT maps. These novel maps can be associated with pairs of pencils of quadrics in $\mathbb P^3$. By construction, these maps have two rational integrals (parameters of both pencils). In the present paper, we find an invariant volume form for these maps, thus finally establishing their integrability.

Blind Construction of Angular Power Maps in Massive MIMO Networks
Zheng Xing, Junting Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07071 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0707…

Blind Construction of Angular Power Maps in Massive MIMO Networks
Channel state information (CSI) acquisition is a challenging problem in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks. Radio maps provide a promising solution for radio resource management by reducing online CSI acquisition. However, conventional approaches for radio map construction require location-labeled CSI data, which is challenging in practice. This paper investigates unsupervised angular power map construction based on large timescale CSI data collected in a massive MIMO networ…

Extremal rate of convergence in discrete hyperbolic and parabolic dynamics
Francisco J. Cruz-Zamorano, Konstantinos Zarvalis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12501 https://

Extremal rate of convergence in discrete hyperbolic and parabolic dynamics
This paper investigates the dynamical behaviour of holomorphic self-maps of the upper half-plane. More precisely, we focus on the hyperbolic and parabolic self-maps whose orbits approach the Denjoy--Wolff point with the slowest possible rate. We characterize self-maps of such extremal rate using various tools, like the Herglotz representation, the conformality of the Koenigs function at the Denjoy--Wolff point and the hyperbolic distance.

Wir jammern und beschweren uns ja gern über die Bahn ..
Die Woche: Google Maps von zuhause nach München OlympiaHalle mit dem Auto: Erwartete Zeit: 45min - 1:10h
Okkaayy, so "genau" kann ich ohne weiteres mit der Bahn auch planen.
Nach dem Event ... ich stehe eine halbe Std auf dem Parkplatz weil eine der beiden Schranken endlos langsam ist und Kennzeichenerkennung nicht durchgängig ist, so dass das ausfahren auch unnötig lang dauert.
Aber hey, beim Auto ist …

torchsom: The Reference PyTorch Library for Self-Organizing Maps
Louis Berthier, Ahmed Shokry, Maxime Moreaud, Guillaume Ramelet, Eric Moulines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11147 …

torchsom: The Reference PyTorch Library for Self-Organizing Maps
This paper introduces torchsom, an open-source Python library that provides a reference implementation of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) in PyTorch. This package offers three main features: (i) dimensionality reduction, (ii) clustering, and (iii) friendly data visualization. It relies on a PyTorch backend, enabling (i) fast and efficient training of SOMs through GPU acceleration, and (ii) easy and scalable integrations with PyTorch ecosystem. Moreover, torchsom follows the scikit-learn API for e…

Non-degenerate mixed maps and contact structures
In\'acio Rabelo, Jos\'e Seade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03033 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03033

Non-degenerate mixed maps and contact structures
We study the geometry and topology of real analytic maps $\mathbb{C}^n \to \mathbb{C}^k$, where $n > k$, regarded as mixed maps, defined below. Firstly, we give two natural families of mixed isolated complete intersection singularities, called mixed ICIS, which are interesting on their own. We consider the notion of (partial) non-degeneracy for mixed maps; we prove that these define mixed ICIS and that, under suitable conditions, admit a local Milnor fibration. Then, building on previous constr…

Photo from Bluesky post by @… , on the land impact of fossil fuels: fracking sites near Wickett, Texas, USA.
Incredible indeed. Check it out on Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/…

"We are a higher court, but not a better one": Kagan rages at SCOTUS decision to allow Texas maps - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/04/we-are-a-higher-court-but-not-a-better-one-kagan-rages-at-scotus-decision-to-allow-texas-maps/

The fall of the Haag (LL4-6) #chondrite breccia—Just 8 years after the nearby fall Stubenberg (LL6): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.70060 -> Seltener Meteorit liefert Einblicke in die Geschichte des Sonnensystems: https://www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?cmdid=15019&lang=en - Analysen liefern Erkenntnisse über Einschläge, Umlaufbahn und Ursprung im Asteroidengürtel

I've made another small contribution to the great @… website! 😍
The "alternatives to Google Maps" page now provides more details on how different websites/apps/etc. that are based on #OpenStreetMap can be used to replace many of the Google Maps functions: navigation, creating custom maps, adding businesses/amenities/POI etc. 🗺️
https://switching.software/replace/google-maps/
Did I miss any good solutions? Suggest/add them on @…!

General Chen's first inequality and applications for Riemannian maps
Ravindra Singh, Kiran Meena, Kapish Chand Meena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10505 https://

General Chen's first inequality and applications for Riemannian maps
In this paper, we present a general form of Chen's first inequality (in short, CFI) for Riemannian maps between Riemannian manifolds. Further, using this general form, we obtain the CFI for Riemannian maps when target spaces are generalized complex and generalized Sasakian space forms. Consequently, we also obtain the CFI for Riemannian maps when the target spaces are real, complex, real Kähler, Sasakian, Kenmotsu, cosymplectic, and almost $C(α)$ space forms. Moreover, we also discuss geometr…

A $1000\times$ Faster LLM-enhanced Algorithm For Path Planning in Large-scale Grid Maps
Junlin Zeng, Xin Zhang, Xiang Zhao, Yan Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02716 https://

A $1000\times$ Faster LLM-enhanced Algorithm For Path Planning in Large-scale Grid Maps
Path planning in grid maps, arising from various applications, has garnered significant attention. Existing methods, such as A*, Dijkstra, and their variants, work well for small-scale maps but fail to address large-scale ones due to high search time and memory consumption. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in path planning but still suffer from spatial illusion and poor planning performance. Among all the works, LLM-A* \cite{meng2024llm} leverages LLM to …

RE: https://verkehrswende.social/@CCitiesOrg/115558613197670636
Machen wir alle Critical Maps an? Als kleines Zeichen, dass es uns wichtig ist?

Pullertene i #Rådhusgata er fjerna fra Google maps! Alle gjestevurderingene er borte!
Heldigvis er alle tre fortsatt markert i OpenStreetMaps.
#Oslo #WorldBollardAssociation

Encore une super soirée au mami wata a #toulouse
https://maps.app.goo.gl/aKp7SBxfHSmLdZLG8

Bee Maps, a decentralized mapping project powered by Hivemapper on the Solana blockchain, raised $32M to expand its network by distributing AI-enabled dashcams (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2025/10/06/bee-maps-r…

Bee Maps Raises $32M to Scale Solana-Powered Decentralized Mapping Network
The fresh capital will be used to distribute more devices, enhance AI models that process and update map features, and boost contributor incentives.

Hadamard-L\'{e}vy theorems for maps taking values in a finite dimensional space
Yacine Chitour, Zhengping Ji, Emmanuel Tr\'elat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11206 https://…

Hadamard-Lévy theorems for maps taking values in a finite dimensional space
We propose global surjectivity theorems of differentiable maps based on second order conditions. Using the homotopy continuation method, we demonstrate that, for a $C^2$ differentiable map from a Hilbert space to a finite-dimensional Euclidean space, when its second-order differential has uniform upper and lower bounds, it has a global path-lifting property in the presence of singularities. This is then applied to the nonlinear motion planning problem, establishing in some cases the well-posedn…

Once again as a tourist in (near) Europe, reminded that Organic Maps and OpenStreetMap is so much better at walking maps than Google.

Searching for Dark Structures: A Comparison of Weak Lensing Convergence Maps and Lensing-Weighted Galaxy Density Maps
Soojin Kim, Ho Seong Hwang, Niall Jeffrey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25836

Searching for Dark Structures: A Comparison of Weak Lensing Convergence Maps and Lensing-Weighted Galaxy Density Maps
We present the result of a comparison between the dark matter distribution inferred from weak gravitational lensing and the observed galaxy distribution to identify dark structures with a high dark matter-to-galaxy density ratio. To do this, we use weak lensing convergence maps from the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 data, and construct corresponding galaxy convergence maps at $z\lesssim1.0$, representing projected galaxy number density fluctuations weighted by lensing efficiency. The two maps show …

Can you watch Cowboys-Panthers in your area? NFL Week 6 TV Coverage Maps https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/10/can-you-watch-cowboys-panthers-nfl-week-6-tv-coverage-maps/8658…

Quantum variance and fluctuations for Walsh-quantized baker's maps
Laura Shou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08321 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08321

Quantum variance and fluctuations for Walsh-quantized baker's maps
The Walsh-quantized baker's maps are models for quantum chaos on the torus. We show that for all baker's map scaling factors $D\ge2$ except for $D=4$, typically (in the sense of Haar measure on the eigenspaces, which are degenerate) the empirical distribution of the scaled matrix element fluctuations $\sqrt{N}\{\langle φ^{(j)}|\operatorname{Op}_{k,\ell}(a)|φ^{(j)}\rangle-\int_{\mathbb{T}^2}a\}_{j=1}^{N}$ for a random eigenbasis $\{φ^{(j)}\}_{j=1}^{N}$ is asymptotically Gaussian in …

"This project started as a search problem and ended as something more. The most important result isn’t which neighbourhood tops the rankings - it’s the realisation that platforms now quietly structure survival in everyday urban markets. London’s restaurant scene is no longer organised by taste alone. It is organised by visibility that compounds, rent that rises when discovery arrives, and algorithms that allocate attention long before consumers ever show up. What looks like “choice” is increasingly the downstream effect of ranking systems."
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates

And yet:
"Three Republican-led states — Texas, along with Missouri and North Carolina — have not faced federal legal action after revamping district lines following Trump’s call for new maps to expand GOP numbers in the House."
✅ Justice Department sues to block California US House map | AP News

Robustly transitive maps with critical points and large dimensional central spaces
Juan C. Morelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10722 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Robustly transitive maps with critical points and large dimensional central spaces
Given any triplet of positive integers $n \geq 2$, $m$ and $k$ such that $n=m+k$, we exhibit a $C^1$ robustly transitive endomorphism of $\mathbb{T}^n$ with persistent critical points in the isotopy class of $F \times Id$, where $F$ is an expanding map of $\mathbb{T}^m$ and $Id$ is the identity of $\mathbb{T}^k$. Furthermore, if $k$ is small, the map is not only in the isotopy class but in fact a perturbation of $F \times Id$.

#RealEstate listing photos edited through artificial intelligence create false impressions of homes for sale online. How A.I. slop is making house hunting in #USA even more dishonest and distorted than ever before.

Maps Show How Latinos Who Shifted Right in 2024 Snapped Back Left in 2025 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/politics/latino-voters-new-jersey.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251115/p53#a251115p53

Hall Skew-morphisms and Hall Cayley maps of finite groups
Wendi Di, Zheng Guo, Cai Heng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10916 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.1091…

Hall Skew-morphisms and Hall Cayley maps of finite groups
A characterization is given of finite groups $H$ that have skew-morphisms of order coprime to the order $|H|$, and their skew-morphisms. A complete classification is then given of the automorphism groups and the underlying graphs of vertex-rotary core-free Hall Cayley maps.

Cobordism maps in Khovanov homology and singular instanton homology II
Hayato Imori, Taketo Sano, Kouki Sato, Masaki Taniguchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09399 https://

Cobordism maps in Khovanov homology and singular instanton homology II
This paper is a continuation of our previous work, where we defined an embedded cobordism map on the instanton cube complex that recovers the cobordism maps both in Khovanov homology and singular instanton theory. In this paper, we extend this construction to immersed cobordisms. As an application, we show that, for any smooth, oriented (not necessarily ribbon) concordance $C$ from a two-bridge torus knot, the induced map $\widetilde{Kh}(C)$ on reduced Khovanov homology is injective, with the l…

Computations and ML for surjective rational maps
Ilya Karzhemanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08093 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08093

Computations and ML for surjective rational maps
The present note studies \emph{surjective rational endomorphisms} $f: \mathbb{P}^2 \dashrightarrow \mathbb{P}^2$ with \emph{cubic} terms and the indeterminacy locus $I_f \ne \emptyset$. We develop an experimental approach, based on some Python programming and Machine Learning, towards the classification of such maps; a couple of new explicit $f$ is constructed in this way. We also prove (via pure projective geometry) that a general non-regular cubic endomorphism $f$ of $\mathbb{P}^2$ is surject…

A Biologically Interpretable Cognitive Architecture for Online Structuring of Episodic Memories into Cognitive Maps
E. A. Dzhivelikian, A. I. Panov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03286

A Biologically Interpretable Cognitive Architecture for Online Structuring of Episodic Memories into Cognitive Maps
Cognitive maps provide a powerful framework for understanding spatial and abstract reasoning in biological and artificial agents. While recent computational models link cognitive maps to hippocampal-entorhinal mechanisms, they often rely on global optimization rules (e.g., backpropagation) that lack biological plausibility. In this work, we propose a novel cognitive architecture for structuring episodic memories into cognitive maps using local, Hebbian-like learning rules, compatible with neura…

Virginia Dems Pass Amendment To Redraw House Maps - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/10/virginia-dems-pass-amendment-to-redraw-house-maps/

Mirror Flow Matching with Heavy-Tailed Priors for Generative Modeling on Convex Domains
Yunrui Guan, Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Shiqian Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08929 ht…

Mirror Flow Matching with Heavy-Tailed Priors for Generative Modeling on Convex Domains
We study generative modeling on convex domains using flow matching and mirror maps, and identify two fundamental challenges. First, standard log-barrier mirror maps induce heavy-tailed dual distributions, leading to ill-posed dynamics. Second, coupling with Gaussian priors performs poorly when matching heavy-tailed targets. To address these issues, we propose Mirror Flow Matching based on a \emph{regularized mirror map} that controls dual tail behavior and guarantees finite moments, together wi…

The Rational Homotopy of Stable $C_p$-Smoothings
Oliver H. Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11622 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11622

The Rational Homotopy of Stable $C_p$-Smoothings
Smooth structures on high dimensional manifolds are classified by maps to the infinite loop space $TOP/O$. The homotopy groups of this space are known to be finite. Given a compact Lie group $G$, this space can be regarded as an equivariant infinite loop space and equivariant maps from a locally linear, high dimensional $G$-manifold to $TOP/O$ classify stable $G$-smoothings. We compute the equivariant homotopy groups $π_V^{C_p}TOP/O\otimes\Q$ where $C_p$ denotes the cyclic group of order $p$.

Detecting Legend Items on Historical Maps Using GPT-4o with In-Context Learning
Sofia Kirsanova, Yao-Yi Chiang, Weiwei Duan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08385 https://

Detecting Legend Items on Historical Maps Using GPT-4o with In-Context Learning
Historical map legends are critical for interpreting cartographic symbols. However, their inconsistent layouts and unstructured formats make automatic extraction challenging. Prior work focuses primarily on segmentation or general optical character recognition (OCR), with few methods effectively matching legend symbols to their corresponding descriptions in a structured manner. We present a method that combines LayoutLMv3 for layout detection with GPT-4o using in-context learning to detect and …

Mass dependence of halo baryon fractions from the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
Finn A. Roper, Yan-Chuan Cai, John A. Peacock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12553 https://…

Mass dependence of halo baryon fractions from the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
We detect the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich imprint of peculiar motions of galaxy groups and clusters, using the photometric DESI Legacy Survey together with cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). We develop a comprehensive forward model based on the AbacusSummit cosmological simulations: mock galaxy group catalogues and synthetic kSZ maps are generated, together with a reconstructed peculiar velocity field that allows for photo-$z$ errors, redshift-space…

Winding quotients for virtual period maps of rank 1
Kyoji Saito
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04558 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04558

Winding quotients for virtual period maps of rank 1
We illustrate a rank 1 model of virtual period maps and their associated winding quotient, where the winding quotient is a new phenomenon appeared in a recent study of virtual period maps and it requires a reformulation of the classical inversion problem for the period maps. We answer to the new inversion problem by introducing the q-multiplicatively periodic function, whose pull-back to the winding covering space is the Weierstrass p-function up to a correction by Eisenstein series E2, and whi…

Google releases fully managed, remote MCP servers to help developers connect AI agents to services such as Maps, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/google-is-going-all-in…

Google launches managed MCP servers that let AI agents simply plug into its tools | TechCrunch
Google is rolling out managed MCP servers to make its services “agent-ready by design,” starting with Maps and BigQuery, aiming to simplify messy integrations and help AI agents use real tools.

Republicans Swiftly File Lawsuit in Bid to Block California's New House Maps (Laurel Rosenhall/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/us/republicans-lawsuit-california-redistricting-maps.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p82#a251105p82

urban_streets: Urban street networks (2017)
20 urban street networks, corresponding to 1-square-mile maps of 20 cities around the world.
This network has 467 nodes and 692 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/urban_stre…

Can you watch Cowboys-Jets in your area? NFL Week 5 TV Coverage Maps https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/03/can-you-watch-cowboys-jets-in-your-area-nfl-week-5-tv-cove…

Supreme Court Clears the Way for Republican-Friendly Texas Voting Maps (Abbie VanSickle/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/us/politics/supreme-court-texas-congressional-maps.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p132#a251204p132

Polymarket's Ukraine war betting, based on ISW's map, generated $1M in volume for "Will Russia capture Myrnohrad?"; an "unauthorized" map edit resolved the bet (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/unauthorized-edit-

'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting
It looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets.

The Supreme Court, in a Thursday evening order, put on hold a lower court ruling that blocked Texas’ aggressive gerrymander,
a maneuver the state legislature carried out on orders from the Trump administration and the president himself,
hoping to preserve Republicans’ majority in the U.S. House in 2026.
In a brief order, the Court argued, among other things, that the District Court had intervened to block the maps too close to next year’s midterm election.
Justice Sam A…

Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas’ Gerrymandered House Maps
The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 order, has put on hold a...

celegans_interactomes: C. elegans interactomes (2009)
Ten networks of protein-protein interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), from yeast two-hybrid experiments, biological process maps, literature curation, orthologous interactions, and genetic interactions. The WI8 network combines WI2004, WI2007 and BPmaps, while the Integrated Network combines data from all sources.
This network has 2724 nodes and 14322 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted…

Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas' Gerrymandered House Maps (Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-conservatives-reinstate-texas-gerrymandered-house-maps
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p124#a251204p124

Maryland Governor Pushes For Redistricting to Counter Trump Gerrymanders: 'Come Next November, We Will Have Fair Maps' (Jen Rice/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/maryland-governor-pushes-for-redistricting-to-counter-trump-gerrymanders-come-next-november-we-will-have-fair-maps/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p86#a251104p86

celegans_interactomes: C. elegans interactomes (2009)
Ten networks of protein-protein interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), from yeast two-hybrid experiments, biological process maps, literature curation, orthologous interactions, and genetic interactions. The WI8 network combines WI2004, WI2007 and BPmaps, while the Integrated Network combines data from all sources.
This network has 912 nodes and 22738 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted<…

The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court
has cleared the way for Texas to use a gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterm elections
that a lower court found racially discriminatory.
The 6-3 ruling is another political win for Donald Trump and his allies,
who have gotten a number of favorable rulings from the justices after being stymied by lower courts.
Trump has asked Republican-led states to redraw their maps
in order to preserv…

Rigging Democracy: Supreme Court Approves Racial Texas Gerrymander, Handing Trump Midterm Advantage
The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to use a gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterm elections that a lower court found racially discriminatory. The 6-3 ruling is another political win for President Donald Trump and his allies, who have gotten a number of favorable rulings from the justices after being stymied by lower courts. Trump has asked Republican-led states to redraw their maps in order to preserve the narrow GOP majority in …