That's the thankless job of Special Agent Gray Hill, who unfortunately fails to reunite many a map with its proper home, even after months of investigation.
Though these wines are stylistically all over the map, many of the best Oregon Pinot Gris have settled happily into a niche somewhere between the full-bodied, powerful style of Alsace and the lighter wines of central Italy.
How many people carry around the map of Alaska in their heads?
Just like recent moves with Congressional redistricting, a review of the new Electoral College map shows how many Americans are moving to states that offer certain advantages.
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Most notably, an update to Apple's mobile operating system has replaced Google Maps with an Apple-designed map service that many users say is less accurate or even omits locations altogether.
The measurements have been used to construct a precise topographical map of Mars with many applications in geophysics, geology and atmospheric circulation.
While a map easily identifies the many small and large mountain lakes, mostly unknown to tourists, I was keen to find the perfect one for a long-distance, open-air, cold-water swim.
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That year the National Cancer Institute published a map of where the many clouds of I-131 had traveled from the 925 nuclear tests in Nevada between 1951 and 1963.
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The map displays data about many USDA grants, loans and programs that support local and regional food systems during 2009-2011, including Farm Service Agency, Farmers Market Nutrition Program, and Seasonal High Tunnel initiative data.
The information about your social network map is out there, just spread across possibly many different software systems.
The absence of the major New York airports from Southwest's route map was a glaring flaw in the eyes of many business travellers.
It will link so many entities together in such complex relationships as to resemble a map made by a drunken spider with inky feet.
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Like many cities, Greenwich has created a geographic information system - a map that shows all the hidden bones and arteries of modern civilization: water mains, storm sewers, utility lines.
Europe was less a region on the map than a state of mind, and bundling as many countries as possible into a single week appealed to workers with precious few opportunities to travel.
He intimated that filling hotels is a matter of profile, and smiled when it was pointed out to him that the presence of so many Asian dignitaries could not but help put his place on the map.
Now many images can be found on a unified website, including The Gough Map.
But clearly they started to see that the mobile web would demand a map-centric approach, which Google has been building for many years.
Hewlett-Packard, a company that helped usher in the information economy, and put Silicon Valley on the map, may have lost its way in the eyes of many.
The discovery of ice is sure to overshadow the many other things Lunar Prospector will achieve (such as the first complete map of the moon's gravity, also announced this week).
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But those who sip from Twitter's fire hose can get much more information, including a sender's location, the biography on his profile page and how many people have subscribed to his messages (see blog post on the map of a tweet).
Partly because many Chinese are just getting their first cars there has been little demand for map apps, but that is likely to change with the same blinding speed so much else in China has experienced .
But many of these locations are hard to pinpoint, so equip yourself with a reliable map and some sturdy walking shoes before heading out on a self-guided tour.
There must have been many others who felt the same sinking feeling: As the colors of the electoral map filled in, my candidate could lose because of me and others like me.
Emulating such precision would produce a map that would be difficult to read, not to mention puzzling, since many of the smaller streets that existed in 1898 have since disappeared.
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To add another layer of complexity, many tweets contain shortened URLs, and the Library of Congress is in discussions with many of these providers as well as with the Internet Archive and its 301works project to help resolve and map the links.
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Even with the crush of snowfall the Sierra-Nevadas got this winter, enough to fill many of California's reservoirs to healthy levels, the states water woes are only getting worse ( see map).
In fact, the distribution map of Volt deliveries makes it seem like GM consulted with some long-range weather forecasters, many of whom, months ago, predicted that the upcoming winter in the eastern U.S. would be both cold and interminable.
Many customers say they are upset that Apple has removed mentions of public transportation routes or stations from its new map service, a popular feature on the Google system which allowed users to see bus and train schedules at individual stations.
There is no saying how many have built big mashups from the downloads, leveraging the 100 million people that have used Google Earth, the map service from Google itself.
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