These grid cells create a direct, intuitively simple map of everywhere you go, basically, sending the data to your hippocampus, the seat of memory and emotion in your brain.
Suppose that some-one gives you a map of New York City and asks you to check if it is correct.
Look at a map of the region and you'll see very few roads and only a handful of towns.
Wikipedia has a map of world antipodes that you can look at.
It calculates what it deems to be your MPG on a trip, the ideal MPG based on whether you drove on the highway or city streets, the map of your route and whether or not you made any fuel-efficiency mistakes like braking too hard or accelerating too quickly.
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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.
Imagine walking the streets of an unfamiliar city on a business trip, calling up an address from a list of contacts and then getting a map showing your location and the location of where you're going.
Tapping that lets you view a map of all local traffic problems or just see which incidents are along the way.
Multiplayer avoids this by actually allowing you to approach each map however you please, but of course this contains its own confinements and limitations.
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So just go to the site, type in your address and we'll take you to a map of your neighborhood with a zestimate of your house and all your neighbors' houses.
For example, for Stanford University a device could eventually show you a 3D map of the campus with real-time traffic information, information about your lecture room and the class there, information about the subject there, such as biology in 3D, and so on.
You can also click a spot in a map of the robot's location, and it will drive to the place you indicate.
"You should see the map of TNK and Rosneft assets, " Mr. Dudley tells me.
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"You can capture a map of the circuit in the brain that was active, " said Brookhaven neuroscientist Panayotis K. Thanos, who helped develop the technique.
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That has been available to the committee since it first started meeting, and is available today, with the waning hours left to it to act, as a road map to how you achieve the kind of balanced approach that Americans demand.
Or you can be lazy about it, you can turn on passive tracking and just walk around with the app running and it will track your travels and plot your photos, comments and saved locations to the map, giving you an animated diary of your day.
You can see a detailed map of enforcement efforts here (downloads as pdf).
Welcome to the Forbes Interactive Electoral College Map, where you can predict the outcome of the 2008 presidential election.
And although the IrisPen's graphics mode lets you capture bit-map images, its narrow lens restricts it to a series of half-inch bands -- and you can't stitch a series of scans together.
If you get out of range, a GPS function allows you to track your items on a map.
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Use that map to improve your retention of the ideas and concepts you wish to remember.
If you sort of look at this map, it is -- it appears to be carefully crafted and tailored.
On the opening page you see a map, and each of the little pins on that map represents a photo.
When watching Game of Thrones you'll get a map showing you where the current scene takes place, along with a browsable family tree.
The tantalizing paradox is: You better devise a trustworthy and reliable map of the intangible world.
The vectors also enable something else a whole lot sexier: a two finger swipe can "tilt" the map and now you've got a 3D view of the landscape.
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If you look on the BBC World Service plan map, you will see that Southern Spain is one of the areas identified as a particular area of concern.
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Now assume that you have a digital map and a bunch of robots with a souped up version of TomTom inside that has a super smart algorithm to test as many roads as possible.
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