But it’s hard to think of an urban area better to use than the parking lot. Besides being unpleasant on the eye, they’re normally pretty large, meaning they have great energy-generating potential. According to a 2021 study Pearce coauthored, installing solar panels over the parking lots of the 3,751 Walmart supercenters spread across the US alone could generate the […]
Read MoreSouvent délaissée par rapport à Google Maps, Plans, l’application cartographique d’Apple, va bientôt devenir un peu plus utile. Elle pourra bientôt fournir aux utilisateurs les options de stationnement et leur disponibilité à proximité d’une destination spécifique. Apple vient d’annoncer une nouvelle fonctionnalité intéressante pour son application Plans. En partenariat avec la plateforme de stationnement SpotHero, […]
Read MoreIn partnership with parking platform SpotHero, Apple Maps now provides parking information for more than 8,000 locations across the U.S. and Canada. Parking availability can be filtered based on EV charging, wheelchair accessibility, and more. On the iPhone, users can open the Apple Maps app and search for a popular destination such as Madison Square […]
Read MoreThis story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. They are gray and rectangular, and if you laid all 2 billion of them together they would cover an area roughly the size Connecticut, about 5,500 square miles. Parking lots have a monotonous ubiquity in US life, but a growing […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Bing Maps has new experiences to help plan trips, including tools for calculating a trip’s distance, finding gas stations, and locating parking spaces. The service also has a tool for finding feasible routes for travel around obstacles and with various methods of transport. Similar features have been available on competing […]
Read MoreBird, le service de location de trottinettes et de vélos électriques, a trouvé un usage concret à la réalité augmentée : la chasse au parking sauvage. La société teste dans certaines des villes où elle dispose d’une concession — cela inclut Paris et Bordeaux en plus de Madrid, New York, San Francisco, San Diego et […]
Read More
