Facebook may have its European headquarters in Dublin but the social networking site has wiped a small Irish village off the map because its name is deemed obscene.

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Rather than a micro-managed trade, this weekly chart is to be viewed as a road map to the potential this name has.

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The signs contain the place name and a map reference which people can give coastguards when reporting an incident.

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The company's new Map Share system, as its name suggests, lets users make changes to maps and share 'em with others.

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However, he said that the biggest obstacle towards creating a more detailed map was to get enough local knowledge to name all the features.

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Both the royal visit and big-name resort helped put Nevis on the map and draw more visitors, and more money, to the island.

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As the name implies, it overlays photos with a map underneath, giving people a far more visual look at what they were seeing at a given point on Earth (or Mars, assuming Curiosity hasn't reached its data limit this month).

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Mr Davenport said the origins of the name "the Nunnery" were hazy, as only one historic map had stated that the site used to be a convent.

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Apple just let go its senior director of iOS services, Richard Williamson, in a move that lops another name off of the list of company minds behind the flawed Apple Map app.

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If you enter the name or address of a place, a small bar appears at the bottom of the map with summary information, like the estimated travel time or, with restaurants, a summary of reviews.

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