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Henry Grabar

Digital Government

How Lasers Will Give the U.S. East Coast Precise New Post-Sandy Maps

The survey will kickoff the most revolutionary American mapping project in a century.

Digital Government

Get Ready for More Nights Without Power

Ten years after the 2003 meltdown, weather-related outages are on the rise.

Modernization

Streetview Hack of the Day: Animate Segments of the Road

A new site lets you turn any stretch of Streetviewed road into a hyperlapse, a timelapse with a mobile camera.

Digital Government

New York's Real-Time Snow Plow Map to Get its First Major Test This Weekend

With a foot of snow in New York City all but assured by Saturday morning, PlowNYC is about to hit the big time.