As we wound through the hills, with my husband driving, I watched the little blue arrows on my phones move across the state and checked out the different features each mapping program offered.
You can view maps in terrain or satellite and utilize GPS with altitude reading and position mapping features.
He said he had already detected flaws with mapping features in the iOS 6 mobile operating system that comes with the phone.
Nyko's complementary Playground app will offer backwards compatibility for other Android games and a variety of button-mapping features, including customized controller layout.
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Armed with their iPhones, they were able to use the GPS and mapping features to get to the exact positions they needed to track the light.
Mapping nearby features, spotting road edges and lane markings, reading signs and traffic lights and identifying pedestrians is done using a combination of cameras, radar and lidar (which works like radar, but with pulses of light rather than radio waves).
The purpose of the current Okeanos Explorer expedition is to help reduce that large unknown, by mapping and imaging features and creatures that may never have been seen before.
Yet ESRI itself, until now focused mainly on high-end corporate and government clients, is responding to the Google excitement by making its latest software features available online to the mapping masses.
Data Sense doesn't stop there, as it has a suite of features like Wi-Fi mapping to find hotspots and compressing images and HTML while browsing the Web to help reduce data usage.
This video from the Nautilus team features highlights from the trip and the 3D mapping that came out of it.
Other new features will include more detailed 3-D mapping of urban areas.
Since launching in December with Rdio, interactive mapping has become one of the most popular SoundHound features as users can tap on a SoundHound'ed song displayed on the map and link directly to Rdio to hear the full track.
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Google, for its part, is putting out new features in Android that will make it stronger in location services, including mapping, 3D, and local advertising.
For Apple, one likely lure of the technology is to help it keep up with other mapping products as the company and its rivals strive to one-up each other on features.
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