If you're unlucky enough for your local patch of sky not to have enough satellites, or you're in a downtown where the signals are blocked, you're not going to get accurate navigation.
Given a straight choice between district hospitals continuing to offer the same range of services as they do now, or patients travelling outside their local patch to find an improved quality of service, a shade under three quarters opt to keep services local. 23% opt for better services further from home.
The firm already runs more than 80 websites covering topics from gadgets (Engadget.com) and music (Spinner.com) to fashion (Stylelist.com) and local news (Patch.com).
It has the local events Armstrong wants Patch to report, but also observations from friends, and photos that are better than any society pages.
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The Pumpkin Patch is a local favourite, with beautiful peach and nectarine orchards laden with juicy softball-sized fruit in late summer.
According to Venturebeat, AOl attributes their increased revenue to advertising from Patch, their local news blogging service, an ambitious project meant to fill the voids left by disappearing local newspapers.
All this week BBC Radio Bristol has been out and about collecting jokes from listeners across the patch, and the local newspaper, Bristol Evening Post, has been helping too by asking readers to send in their funnies.
Continue advertising the day with local blogs in your community (see if your area offers a Patch in it), working with your PR team to get local TV coverage if your business is represented by a public relations firm, and spread the word through friends and family on Facebook and Twitter.
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Patch, a collection of local news blogs founded in 2008 by former Google executive Tim Armstrong, is drawing 163, 000 unique visitors a month.
Patch is supposed to be a local news outlet, but Facebook is already giving people the local news they actually care about.
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Lacking title to his land patch or milk cow, and bedeviled by local bureaucrats from getting it, the poor man remains a squatter.
Local officials go to great lengths to protect companies on their patch, often by giving them preferential access to land or credit, or by easing bureaucratic constraints for them.
This is usually an epic whinge-athon, at the best of times, ( I doubt history records any instance of an MP telling a minister their patch has been given too much funding) but with local councils and police forces facing an unprecedented squeeze, the minister may face an even rougher ride than usual.
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