Paul Ryan's various plans and road maps contain many interesting elements for the reduction of government in the decades ahead.
It wasn't expected that it would one day challenge paper road maps as the preferred aid in navigation for civilians--especially civilians overseas.
Typically, women like to wait for road maps before they try innovations.
Collins is renowned for earlier best sellers such as Built to Last and Good to Great, which offered road maps to business success.
In fact, a few customers are already using Skobbler's iPhone app, which combines road maps, local points of interest and social networking profiles into an iPad driving tool.
But beyond that, Mr Willetts is thinking of a "Leadership Council" bringing together ministers, business people, officials and researchers to prepare "road maps" on technologies - to smooth out regulations and foster development.
Compaq got a head start on the cost-reduction process by fielding more than 200 teams to draw up "road maps" detailing products Compaq would continue to produce and how they would be marketed and sold.
To endow this idea with more political weight, some diplomats think that Georgia might be given the equivalent of the European road maps being followed by Balkan countries, though without (for now) a promise of membership at the end.
The business of publishing road atlases and maps, previously dominated in North America by players like Rand McNally and AAA, was a data-scarcity-driven business (real-time position and road condition information was too expensive to collect and deliver to the point of use).
Their maps detailed road conditions, power outages, underground gas storage, and facilities with hazardous materials.
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For on-the-road navigating, the best maps are those published by the national cycling organization Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad Club (ADFC).
The turn by turn navigation is a big improvement from Google maps, even if the road signage device is a bit cute and over-scaled on my (now undersized) iPhone 4.
His office is littered with maps and plans and decorated with old road signs lifted from lonely highways.
On the road: Optional City Navigator mapping provides detailed street maps, millions of preloaded points of interest and onscreen turn-by-turn directions to your destination, and an optional Auto Nav kit adds a suction mount and car charger.
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Internet mapping sites feature detailed maps that can pinpoint street locations, churn out road conditions and provide destination routes.
Perhaps the Cupertino company would see the changes in the road ahead more clearly, if they could just get their maps to work properly.
But most major road trip-planning tools, such as AAA, Google Maps and Mapquest, bypass these inspiring sights, assuming that most travellers only want the fastest route between points A and B.
Google Maps, for what it is worth, places the nearest road to the spot Apple picks for the town as being 141 kms from downtown Mount Isa.
It also invites users to actively report delays, accidents, hazards on the road, and even speed traps, and also to correct and update its maps, wiki-style.
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Down the road, he can see the potential for the iWatch as distributed data sensor that might allow Apple to fix its maps better, for instance.
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