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Late breaking news

November 13th, 2008

New maps help with DUI enforcement (The Fort Collins Coloradoan)

Local law enforcement agencies believe new data plotting maps will help them better enforce DUI laws.

Maps: skulduggery, distortion and lies (Times Online)

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.

Pittsburgh Artists Stage Street Scenes To Lurk In Google Maps (WTAE-TV Pittsburgh)

Two Pittsburgh artists persuade Google to let them add a little visual interest to one of the company’s street-level maps.

Google Mobile Maps Drops India Temporarily (Search Engine Roundtable)

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, …

Artists stage street scenes to lurk in Google maps (USA Today)

Anyone using Google’s Street View map feature to scan one downtown Pittsburgh street is bound to do a double-take.

4:37 a.m. - New Flood Maps (KARK Little Rock)

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 FEMA maps redefine flood zones (USA Today)

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.

Taiwan market: TomTom offers Google Maps download service (Digi Times)

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.

Artists stage street scenes to lurk in Google maps (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

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?

Artists stage street scenes to lurk in Google maps (San Francisco Chronicle)

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…

To remember the form and the structure of a chart of spirit can give you the selections which you

November 12th, 2008

To remember the form and the structure of a chart of spirit can give you the selections which you must remember information in it. As such, they engage much more your brain in the course of facts assimilating and being connected, compared with the conventional notes. Your charts of spirit are your own property: once that you include/understand how to make notes in the chart of spirit compose, you can develop your own conventions to take them further.

Late breaking news

November 8th, 2008

Microsoft maps get Photosynth panoramas (CNET)

The Photosynth technology immersing oneself in a virtual view of a location now is integrated with Microsoft’s online maps.

New Floodplain Maps Out (KOLR - KSFX Ozarks)

(Springfield, MO) –FEMA has updated its flood insurance rate maps for Springfield and Greene Counties and you can find out if that affects your property this morning.

MAPS lands Goodyear gondola - SSNL (West Side Leader & South Side News Leader)

GREEN The newly restored Goodyear blimp gondola was brought by truck Oct. 31 from Goodyears Wingfoot Lake to the MAPS Air Museum, where the gondola will be placed on permanent display.

Residents question new flood plain maps (The Springfield News-Leader)

Ozark — The Christian County Commission met Thursday with officials from the state Emergency Management Agency and AMEC Earth and Environmental to discuss protests and answer residents’ questions about preliminary revised flood plain maps for the…

Residents question new flood plain maps (The Springfield News-Leader)

Ozark — The Christian County Commission met Thursday with officials from the state Emergency Management Agency and AMEC Earth and Environmental to discuss protests and answer residents’ questions about preliminary revised flood plain maps for the county.

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to offer Braille maps of campus (Chattanooga Times Free Press)

When April Jones came to UTC as a freshman in 2004 she was forced to navigate the dark new world of college life with little more than a cane and a homemade map made of wax.

Groundbreaking maps facilitate navigation (The Echo)

UTC is the first university in Tennessee to offer textured maps etched in magnesium for students with disabilities, Bryon Kleusner, adaptive technology coordinator for the Office of Students with Disabilities, said. The Office for Students with Disabilities has two maps the size of a large office desk, one of which will tentatively be located in the UC and the other in the Office for …

Experts sequence gene maps of Chinese, African men (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Scientists have sequenced the entire gene maps of two men, one Chinese and the other African, for a fraction of the price that such exercises used to cost.

Late breaking news

October 23rd, 2008

First Nation Angered by Maps (A-Channel Victoria)

Maps Point Out First Nations Burial Sites

Travel Hamburg, Germany - Illustrated Guide, Phrasebook and Maps. FREE general info in trial version (All About Symbian)

An illustrated guide and maps. Indulge Yourself with a personal tour guide on Your PDA. FREE general information chapter and a map in the trial version.

Chandrayaan to help generate moon maps (Express India)

Chandrayaan-I, India’s maiden moon mission, is carrying 11 instruments which will help prepare comprehensive maps of the earth’s only natural satellite — the moon.

Maps Are The Mission For India’s 1st Moon Launch (The Tampa Tribune)

India launched its first mission to the moon Wednesday, rocketing a satellite up into the pale dawn sky in a two-year mission to redraw maps of the lunar surface.

Google Maps gets gov M-way congestion overlay (The Register)

Superhighway information information superhighway England’s Highways Agency has announced a hookup with Google which presents live traffic information overlaid atop the online ad firm’s popular cloud map app, Google Maps.

New flood plain maps near reality (Dunn County News)

BOYCVILLE After a frustrating and fruitless period that spanned several years, it appears that Boycevilles attempt to secure updated flood plain zoning maps is about to bear fruit.

Chandrayaan-I to help generate comprehensive moon maps (The Times of India)

SRIHARIKOTA: Scientists world over have detailed maps of Mars but not of the moon. Chandrayaan-I, India’s maiden moon mission, is carrying 11 instruments which will help prepare comprehensive maps of the earth’s only natural satellite — the moon.

Maps Are The Mission For India’s 1st Moon Launch (The Tampa Tribune)

NEW DELHI (AP) Scientists have better maps of distant Mars than the moon where astronauts have walked. But India hopes to change that with its first lunar mission.

Google’s new maps traffic function is powered by Highways Agency data (PublicTechnology.net)

The Highways Agency has made its traffic data available to Google(tm) for use within their brand new Google Maps(tm) traffic feature. The traffic feature is simple.

India launches mission to moon to redraw maps (International Herald Tribune)

Chief among the mission’s goals is mapping not only the surface of the moon, but what lies beneath.

Late breaking news

October 17th, 2008

Instantly Locate Yourself on Google Maps [Featured Greasemonkey User Script] (Lifehacker)

Firefox with Greasemonkey (All platforms): The Google Maps & Geode Greasemonkey user script adds a small Current Position link next to the Google Maps search box that instantly locates you on a map…

California Maps a Plan to Slow Down Global Warming (US News & World Report)

The state’s plan could be a model for other states, or even the federal government.

Mayor?s California Bid May Undercut Incumbents (New York Times)

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg visited California on Wednesday to stump for a measure that would prevent legislators there from redrawing their district maps.

Help for Voters (New York Times)

Where is my polling place, and where can I check to see if I am actually registered to vote? Google maps How do I know what identification is required to vote in my state?

Bank employee gets e-mail asking for maps of Asansol (Outlook India)

A bank employee has received an e-mail, purportedly originated from Pakistan, here asking for disaster contingency plans and maps of Asansol. Anwar Tariq, a resident of Panchkula near here, told police that he had received a “blank e-mail” on Monday.

Bank employee gets e-mail asking for maps of Asansol (Chennai Online)

Chandigarh, Oct 15 A bank employee has received an e-mail, purportedly originated from Pakistan, here asking for disaster contingency plans and maps of Asansol.

Popular business directory searches (The Enid News & Eagle)

From October 25 through December 2, the Outreach Space of the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center will host a traveling photographic exhibit entitled Crossroads of Empire, Printed Maps of Texas and the Southwest which displays reproductions of old maps and explains their impact on the development of the Southwest.

Just what is an "X Zone?" (Galveston County Daily News)

GALVESTON The X Zone is denoted on the citys damage assessment maps.

Global Concepts in Maps (Highlights) - 1947

October 14th, 2008

Boy Danny just doesn’t “get” why map projections are important for him to understand. Actually, neither do we after watching this film! But after an afternoon visit from the disembodied voice of our narrator, Danny seems to understand that global map projections are relevent to his life. Highly entertaining way of learning the various concepts of global cartography, from “conical projections…

Just as of the matters can be grouped according to the type (country, city, poиt, etc

October 11th, 2008

Just as of the matters can be grouped according to the type (country, city, pot, etc…) and the occurrences according to the role (mention, article, comment, etc), so much too associations of can between the matters are grouped according to their type. The type of association for the reports/ratios mentioned above could be inside (or retained geographical), is supported inside, written near, collaborated with.

Thus, the named “tosca” could be assigned with three different matters in the ranges defined by the

October 10th, 2008

Thus, the named “tosca” could be assigned with three different matters in the ranges defined by the topics “operated”, “opera”+”character”, and “treatment the furnace” respectively, removing any ambiguity and reducing of this fact the chance of the errors, for example by amalgamating the matter traces.

Then this time, by construction on a system of matter navigation succeeded to show the true

October 9th, 2008

Then this time, by construction on a system of matter navigation succeeded to show the true knowledge management in the action, it would be much easier to obtain the desired attention. One known well, and the apparently successful application were that done for the French encyclopaedia. This application showed the simplicity of the model and how it could be applied to a great whole of information.

The mundi of Mappa is the general term employed to describe the medieval European charts of the

October 8th, 2008

The mundi of Mappa is the general term employed to describe the medieval European charts of the world. The mundi of roughly 1.100 mappae are known to have survived of the Average Ages. Of the latter, some 900 are found that illustrating manuscripts and the remainder to exist as autonomous documents (Woodward, P. 286).