It is also one of the two companies assembling a digital map covering most of the world.

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To locate emerging artifacts quickly, Dixon and a colleague developed a digital map covering a portion of Alaska.

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The problem is that the government has to cut the assisted-areas map down from covering 34% of Britain's population to covering 29%.

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Over that time, Euclid will map about 2 billion galaxies, covering about 75% of the history of the universe.

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