There is no doubt that the range, accuracy and personalised nature of digital mapping will increase, and that mapping companies will become even integral to our lives.

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The other members of the team are firefighter Mark Stubbs, 40, from Poole, Dorset, Jonathan Gornall, 48, a journalist from London , and digital mapping specialist John Wills, 33, from Farnham in Surrey.

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"One of the reasons we're so excited about community data is the sheer volume of it, " says Rik Temmink, vice president for product management at TeleAtlas, the digital mapping subsidiary of sat-nav manufacturer TomTom.

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After bit mapping into digital (with a separate division) and dramatically reducing its global work force from 70, 000 to 18, 800, all seems to have rolled off the table for Kodak, but studies show that institutions with entrenched issues always have bright spots.

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Goldspink has joined other computer graphics (CG) bosses from the UK and around the world at Swansea Animation Days 2002 (SAND) - a 48-hour festival showcase celebrating the latest 3D techniques and mapping the future for digital animation, as 2D methods wane.

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And Scott Willbrant, a coordinator of the USDA's mapping effort for the state of Kansas, says the new digital atlas will be useful to a lot of other people, too.

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Mapping the modern distribution of these superclusters is one of the tasks of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (another foundation-funded instrument, based in New Mexico), which is scanning a quarter of the sky in unprecedented detail.

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Expect more to come: Nokia unveiled a suite of new mapping, navigation and messages aimed at making its handsets--which already serve as a kind of digital multitool in much of the world--more useful.

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