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Latitude is a new feature for Google Maps on your mobile device. It's also an iGoogle gadget on your computer. Once you've opted in to Latitude, you can see the approximate location of your friends and loved ones who have decided to share their location with you. So now you can do things like see if your spouse is stuck in traffic on the way home from work, notice that a buddy is in town for the weekend, or take comfort in...
A legal claim by a Pittsburgh couple that Google's Street View feature violated their privacy has been thrown out by a federal judge. Christine and Aaron Boring sued the search giant after photos of their home appeared on the free mapping program.
2009-02-19
Google maps cartography privacyThe Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) is an instrument on board the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. It combines a 5-wavelength visual imaging system with a 9-wavelength infrared imaging system. The orbiter launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 7, 2001 and arrived at Mars on October 24, 2001.
BBC News is following a shipping container for a year to tell the story of globalisation.
Conventional maps show the shape of a country according to its land mass. But what if you drew a map according to where people lived?
Atlanta, the capital of the US state of Georgia will soon be the world's most digitally mapped city, according to organisers of a massive "mapathon".
A Place Page is a webpage for every place in the world, organizing all the relevant information about it. By every place, we really mean *every* place — there are Place Pages for businesses, points of interest, transit stations, neighborhoods, landmarks and cities all over the world.
2009-09-24
Google cartography maps
Smartphones with GPS and talking map applications are increasingly competing with sat-nav devices, experts say. In response Garmin and TomTom, two major players in the sat-nav industry, have joined the smartphone market.
2010-01-01
GPS navigation mobile phone mapsIntricate maps of science have been created from citation data to visualize the structure of scientific activity. However, most scientific publications are now accessed online. Scholarly web portals record detailed log data at a scale that exceeds the number of all existing citations combined. Such log data is recorded immediately upon publication and keeps track of the sequences of user requests (clickstreams) that are issued by a variety...
2009-03-11
science visualization knowledge maps... and all the players merely stops, as an ingenious Shakespeare-themed tube map shows us.
2007-09-26
William Shakespeare visualization story maps