And indeed a street map of India (notoriously hard place to navigate) was already in the works, being crowd-sourced by users in India.
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When I asked my hotel concierge to show me Via Dante on a Palermo street map, he inquired why.
In Austria, Ars Electronica, a collaborative behind a digital arts festival, museum and lab, helped Siemens develop a car navigation system that shows the driver a video of the street rather than a map.
In Austria, Ars Electronica, a collaborative behind a digital arts festival, museum and lab, helped Siemens (nyse: SI - news - people ) develop a car navigation system that shows the driver a video of the street rather than a map.
The output areas form blocks, which can be coded and drawn onto a simplified modern street map after some smoothing of edges.
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He can draft a contract, train a falcon, draw a map, stop a street fight, furnish a house and fix a jury.
Pattern analysis -- the heart of data mining -- is conventional crime-solving, whether the suspicious patterns are spotted on a crime pin map, on a city street, or in an electronic database.
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Anyone with something to add can enter a street address and leave a marker on the map at that location, providing a few lines of text about conditions at that spot.
Another Google-dodging feature in the new browser: Highlighting a street address on a Web page launches a map, with the default set to Microsoft's Live Maps (though you can change this default to Google Maps).
Is it possible, in the crazy there-one-minute-gone-the-next lifestyle that expats live, to meet someone while staring at a map on a street corner that is everything you never knew you needed?
This information is shown through charts, illustrations, reports and a variety of map representations including street, photo, topographic.
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You could see Flickr photos, recent muggings, local news stories and home foreclosures on your street, viewed as a map, list or RSS feed.
But responses from scientists and a Wall Street analyst were all over the map.
You can give information about a street which is not necessarily in the map set because it's brand new -- this is something that no device was ever able to do in the past.
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The information is shown as location trails on a computer screen map, down to a level of detail which shows on which side of the street and in which direction a person is moving.
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But by placing crime data onto a map showing your town, your neighbourhood and even your street, the statistics suddenly start to hit home.
One sweet new feature is the inclusion of a 2.6GB hard drive, which obviates the need to be switching SD cards when you need to change map sets (units will ship with a full set of street level maps of Europe).
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Here, you'll find the ability to view map overlays from multiple carriers, along with the ability to zoom into a street-level view.
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