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November 13th, 2008Local law enforcement agencies believe new data plotting maps will help them better enforce DUI laws.
As my friends will attest, an obsession with maps is no joke. Working at a magazine based in Covent Garden in my twenties, I spent most lunch hours - time when I should have been schmoozing my way into high-powered journalism - browsing the Ordnance Surveys in Stanfords, London’s finest map shop.
Two Pittsburgh artists persuade Google to let them add a little visual interest to one of the company’s street-level maps.
A couple days ago, Google Mobile Maps users reported over at Google Groups that India was no longer showing up in Google Mobile Maps. Well, to be honest, the satellite views were showing, but the ordinary map view was not showing India. People at first thought it might have been a political move by Google, but all it was, was a bug. On November 8th, it was reported and on November 11th, …
Anyone using Google’s Street View map feature to scan one downtown Pittsburgh street is bound to do a double-take.
Some homeowners who’ve never had to carry flood insurance… may now be required to do so… after FEMA re-zoned some areas using new maps. FEMA says the new digitized flood maps are more accurate, easier to update and what mortgage companies use to make flood insurance conditions for a loan.
New high-tech maps are forcing many U.S. homeowners to buy flood insurance for the first time, while others who have had coverage are being cleared to drop their policies.
TomTom International has announced its cooperation with Google to provide free service of downloading coordinates and POI (points of interest) from Chinese-language Google Maps onto TomTom in-car GPS (global positioning system) PNDs (portable navigation devices) in Taiwan, according to the Taiwan branch of TomTom Asia.
Anyone using Google’s Street View map feature to scan one downtown Pittsburgh street is bound to do a double-take. Two 17th century swordsmen doing battle? An escape from a building using knotted sheets?
Anyone using Google’s Street View map feature to scan one downtown Pittsburgh street is bound to do a double-take. Two 17th century swordsmen doing battle? An escape from a building using knotted sheets? A laser zapping a Steelers fan and a Cleveland Browns…