Smith is almost certain to focus on operations inside the philanthropy, particularly the management of engineers producing products like communications tools for disease specialists in the field or Google maps identifying geothermal fields.

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"He would have been required to draw field plans and estate maps, and be familiar with surveying tools, " he said.

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Essentially an iPhone app, it leverages recent developments in location awareness and social networking to keep tabs on both friends and enemies in the field, displaying positions on maps in real time -- all the while enabling secure communications between soldiers.

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The practical part of the seminar (field survey) on documentation works including making topographic maps and archaeological survey (putting GPS points of archaeological sites, collect surface materials) will be conducted at the archaeological site Kanka (200 km. from Tashkent).

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RootMetrics offers coverage maps based on data gathered via its own field testing team, plus crowdsource data gathered via its iPhone and Android apps.

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Contacts, maps and websites can be shared wirelessly using near-field communications (NFC), by tapping two compatible phones together.

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The former official said backpacks, computers and maps were found during the searches in New York, and field tests turned up positive for explosives.

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The first maps not only record the three components but also compare their signals to the best available gravity field models assembled from existing space- and ground-acquired data-sets.

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