How the Great Trigonometric Survey led to the…

[ad_1] Chennai, then Madras, 1819. Syed Mir Mohsin Husain, a jeweller from Arcot, was working in the store of his employer, George Gordon, when some British military officials stopped by with a strange instrument, asking…

GIS mapping may clear doubts over number of…

[ad_1] According to the KWA, nearly 5,200 public taps were found in the mapping conducted jointly with the Kochi Corporation, which had contested the number of taps and the functional ones among them. | Photo…

GCC’s Pee Point Mapping initiative lets people point…

[ad_1] According to a senior corporation official, they will begin working on solutions, whether that means installing more public toilets in specific areas or taking up beautification projects. : While moving towards rethinking sanitation in…

Mapping places where women hung out in Bengaluru’s…

[ad_1] It was while reading historian and writer Janaki Nair’s book, The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore’s Twentieth Century, that Nikhita Thomas first encountered an interesting expression: kineticization, “a phenomenon in the 80s and early…

Mapping Israel’s wave of strikes in Gaza

[ad_1] More than 400 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.Israel's military says it's been hitting "terror targets" across the territory.BBC Verify's Nick Beake has been assessing…