Or even direct comparisons of alternative mapping services.

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Examples include direct broadcast television, satellite communications, and earth mapping.

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In fact, most of the value-added uses for space today (GPS navigation, communications, direct broadcast TV and Radio, weather, photography and mapping) owe little to the Apollo program.

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Now, it's true that amazing gains are being made in the efficiency of internal combustion engines, both gas and diesel: direct injection, cylinder deactivation, stop-start, eco-mode throttle mapping, to name a few of the recent applied technologies.

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