On the Internet platform, companies get developers by offering them access to big databases they could not afford on their own (such as map coordinates, calendar information or sales tracking information) and letting them build things against it.

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The Afghan fighter's family will receive a map marking the coordinates of his grave, a grave registration form and casings from the rounds fired in the salute.

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They go into a computer program, along with satellite global positioning coordinates to map -- with precision -- the basic outline.

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Instead of randomly generating an entire, playable map, Firaxis's designers only use the CPU to generate a "height map" that contains simple coordinates and 8-bit height values.

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Better to have that piece of work done locally by all the endpoints and have them send a light information stream to the center: a single map coordinate rather than a bunch of tower coordinates and distance measurements.

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The device won't let you make voice calls or surf the Web, but it does offer a host of safety features: It can map a bread-crumb trail of your coordinates so that people back home can track your whereabouts from any Web browser.

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The radio transmits a plane's speed, heading, altitude and GPS coordinates to all other planes similarly equipped, allowing each to map the traffic around it.

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But according to the new U.S. account, a serviceman talking to the border-control center, attempting to make the coordinates more specific for the Pakistanis by pairing them with a map of the political border, applied an incorrect electronic overlay on his computer.

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