The MapSource City Select CD-ROM comes standard so you can download detailed street-level map data, look up more than five million points of interest or just navigate to an address in the United States or Canada.
From March 2010, all new Nokia GPS-enabled smartphones will come installed with the new Ovi Maps application and pre-loaded with local country map data and walk and drive navigation with access to location-aware Lonely Planet and Michelin travel guides at no extra cost.
ENGADGET: Nokia offering free turn-by-turn navigation on smartphones globally (updated)
BaseCamp displays topographic map data in 2-D or 3-D on their computer screen, including contour lines and elevation profiles.
ENGADGET: Four new Oregon touchscreen GPS devices pop up on Garmin's website (updated)
Despite the advent of GPS, radar technology and 3-D computer software, an exquisitely hand-drawn map and carefully collected data often can outdo what a couple of whiz kids can find on a laptop.
WSJ: In Geology, Old-Timers Can Be Worth Their Weight in Gold
Map data will continue to evolve-only a limited amount of high-resolution satellite imagery is currently available.
ENGADGET: Apple seeds iOS 6 beta 4 to developers: here's the changelog
Toyota will be delivering this "differential map data" to your car -- in Japan only, of course -- this spring.
The key to delivering semi-autonomous capability will be the integration of lane- centering technology that relies on forward-looking cameras to detect lane markings and GPS map data to detect curves and other road characteristics, said John Capp, General Motors director of Global Active Safety Electronics and Innovation.
ENGADGET: Cadillac road tests self-driving Super Cruise tech, could hit highways by mid-decade
Its researchers can tap into proprietary high-speed databases that hold 10 terabytes of data and map out and compare ten distinct properties of proteins.
Still in embryo, the ideas include data systems that allow drivers to map the fastest and most eco-friendly routes.
Below, from an Cork, Ireland-based reader, who used a different program, iFunBox, to map his data.
FORBES: What the iPhone Tracking Looks Like (And How To Encrypt It)
The GPS data allowed a map to be made of the routes taken and the heart-rate measurements provided an estimate of the amount of energy expended during their travels.
The team that has done this for Planck's data says the map is an elegant fit for the standard model of cosmology - the idea that the Universe started in a hot, dense state in an incredibly small space, and then expanded and cooled.
In July, astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which aims to map out a million galaxies, published a research paper in which they superimposed their own galaxy-clustering data on Wmap's microwave data.
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.
In its simplest state, this is geographical data with a timestamp, but when you plot this data onto the scenery of a map and then create a shifting window into the scene through the sequence of time, you create a data-driven story.
But its new release, called ArcGIS 9.2, will let any user publish a map online so it can be revised by another user, like a Google mash-up but with far more sophisticated data sets.
应用推荐