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 ...

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.

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 ...

It seems as if Google dropped the Wikipedia layer from Google Maps a few weeks ago. A Google Maps Help thread has dozens of complaints from Google Maps users that the Wikipedia layer is gone. The ...