"The overall content, including the maps, text and photographs is very much more detailed than any other atlas ever produced, " said Alan Smith, Managing Director of Global Mapping.

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Mr Go reckons that urbanisation could be as low as 25%, based on data from the Global Rural Urban Mapping Project, a global population map.

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Some of the latest images from NASA's Global Surveyor mapping mission around the red planet are making that abundantly clear, a group of scientists and engineers interested in NASA's Mars mission set for a 2001 launch learned recently.

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Behind the scenes Nokia appears to be undertaking a global laser-based mapping exercise designed to give it superior mapping data.

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Google has a global brand, along with the search and mapping capabilities to make it a natural start point for our phone calls.

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Malin is the principal investigator for the camera onboard Mars Global Surveyor, currently in its fifth month of mapping the red planet.

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This guest post was written by Denise ( DeeDee) Deman, Chief Executive Officer, Bench International, the oldest and largest global, woman-owned retained executive recruiting, talent mapping and consulting organization serving the life sciences sector.

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Since it started its mapping mission around Mars in 1998, the Mars Global Surveyor has sent back thousands of high quality images.

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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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