This allows for games built on the system to have more precise, one-to-one mapping of player movement in real-life to that on the screen.

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Well, that's one more option to Google's mapping service and one less company paying data dividends into the Mountain View system.

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For Apple, one likely lure of the technology is to help it keep up with other mapping products as the company and its rivals strive to one-up each other on features.

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Interestingly, mapping appears to be one of the reasons Google recently hired Internet pioneer Vint Cerf as its chief Internet evangelist.

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One of my goals is to get Mood Mapping taught in schools, so that children grow up understanding their moods and managing them.

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The mountain peak collection was one of Google's trickiest mapping projects to photograph, as the adventure team dealt with torrential downpours, mudslides and even a 6.9-magnitute earthquake near Everest in the middle of the night.

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Android smartphones have one key advantage over the iPhone when it comes to mapping: They have a built-in Google turn-by-turn navigation service that acts like an in-car GPS, while the iPhone doesn't the result of disagreements between the companies over how such a service would be displayed.

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Using new genetic techniques such as molecular mapping, they have located a set of genes on one chromosome that appears to control the process in a grass species called Tripsacum.

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One interesting feature that Garmin added to the standard Palm application set is a connection between the contact list and GPS mapping.

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Developed in collaboration with Autodesk's expert professional video effects teams, the new 720p HD video and video HDR with one click real-time mapping and color correction enables Socialcam-with more than 20 million downloads-to continue to break through barriers to mobile video adoption by making it easy to express creativity and individuality wherever inspiration strikes-anytime, anywhere, and on any device.

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