Map data will continue to evolve-only a limited amount of high-resolution satellite imagery is currently available.
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It works in offline mode, without data connection, and with better and richer map data.
BaseCamp displays topographic map data in 2-D or 3-D on their computer screen, including contour lines and elevation profiles.
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Toyota will be delivering this "differential map data" to your car -- in Japan only, of course -- this spring.
Neither does it rely on map data from other companies like TomTom, as Apple does. (Apple maps actually uses data from Waze too).
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Nokia plans to continue licensing the map data to all of Navteq's customers but wants control of the data to begin developing location services and targeted advertising.
Super Cruise is designed to ease the driver's workload on the freeway, in both bumper-to-bumper traffic and on long road trips by relying on a fusion of radar, ultrasonic sensors, cameras and GPS map data.
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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.
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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.
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The app doesn't seem to eat up much space (it occupies 4MB on the device), so it appears to be pulling map data OTA. That's a good thing if you're worried about filling up your G1, but bad if you need info quickly or you're not in a data-gettin' spot.
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An intercontinental project that bridged citizen science, open data, open source hardware, civic hacking and the Internet of things to monitor, share and map radiation data?
Below, from an Cork, Ireland-based reader, who used a different program, iFunBox, to map his data.
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Technically, this platform allows marketers to map the data they have in their own customer databases, like email addresses and phone numbers, to those of Facebook users.
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.
Using an included attachment, the watch can share data with a PC, including map images, landmark data and routes.
The map, which used data from the Scottish Agricultural Science Agency (SASA), only shows incidents of confirmed poisoning cases.
Biologists scrambling to make decisions about the habitat in southern California found neither a vegetation map nor any demographic data on the gnatcatcher.
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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.
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.
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To a comprehensive terrain map of Alaska he adds data on avian flyways, urban settlements, hospital locations and climate.
But by placing crime data onto a map showing your town, your neighbourhood and even your street, the statistics suddenly start to hit home.
To help our clients address these challenges, Forrester developed a research and planning tool called the Data Privacy Heat Map (try the demo version here).
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.
Scientists analyzed calls and texts involving almost 15 million Kenyan mobile phone subscribers, nearly 12, 000 cell towers, and 692 different settlements and correlated that data with a map of malaria cases.
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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.
Much like Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap is a collaborative, crowdsourced and global project of over 650, 000 contributors dedicated to revolutionizing digital maps by creating a free, editable and interactive map of the world using data from satellites, GPS logs, local knowledge, and other sources of geographic information.
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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.
Owning the map experience is about owning location data which is critical to local discovery.
Unstructured customer conversation content is very difficult to map to enterprise transaction and master data management systems, which form the core of enterprise business application software.
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