Google is getting more comfortable with its inner wiki. It is now allowing anyone in the U.S., Australia, or New Zealand to improve Google Maps by editing places for everyone else to see. So if a ...

The month of October has me thinking about monsters—and, specifically, mutants. That’s a strange way to start a conversation about tech topics, I realize. But stay with me: I promise this is going ...

As I write this, someone in Cincinnati just modified the Wikipedia entry of the 2002 film “Unfaithful.” Someone else in Spruce Pine, N.C., just update the article on jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. I ...

In the world of online mapping, it feels like things aren’t quite going in Google’s direction these days: Apple switched away from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap when it launched iPhoto for iOS.

Accurate digital mapmaking has never been more important, as Apple’s recent fiasco with its new, glitchy and inconsistent Apple Maps app has shown. The coordinates correspond to the relevant locations ...

Anyone can contribute to the Interactive Maps, but you'll need permission/access from a wiki moderator first (contact IGN Staff on Twitter for the quickest response). Here's how to add your very own ...

OpenStreetMap is exactly what its name implies—a wiki of maps and location data to which anyone can contribute, just like Wikipedia. With the help of some deep-pocketed boosters, including MapQuest ...

First it was Foursquare. And then Apple. Now, it's Wikipedia's turn to switch from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap. Wikipedia's decision, announced in a blog post, is likely to raise more questions about ...

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