In an effort to help displaced hurricane victims and their families, ad hoc communities of Internet users are using mapping technologies from Google to track storm damage, analyze aerial photos and try to make sense of what little information is available.
Mapping technology from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) are among the alternatives that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook recommended that users try while his company attempts to fix its own broken Maps App.
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In an effort to help displaced hurricane victims and their families, ad hoc communities of Internet users are using mapping technologies from Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) to track storm damage, analyze aerial photos and try to make sense of what little information is available.
From mapping sites to social networks, web-based software evolves much faster than desktop software, which often looks old-fashioned by comparison.
Campaigners have pressed for a wide range of public data, from mapping information to MPs' expenses, to be made available on the web.
Mapping the data from the 2001 census is an easy matter.
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The other members of the team are firefighter Mark Stubbs, 40, from Poole, Dorset, Jonathan Gornall, 48, a journalist from London , and digital mapping specialist John Wills, 33, from Farnham in Surrey.
Nokia has a great mapping heritage, especially from the Navteq acquisition onwards.
But new, patented tests created with information gleaned from genome mapping have injected new life and higher margins (near 75%) into the business.
For the uninitiated, the Lynx A is billed as a point-and-shoot 3D camera that uses Kinect-esque hardware to obtain depth mapping and imaging info from your surroundings.
Starting around five years ago, Google switched from merely mapping out the Web to acting as its roving police force, scanning pages and labeling troublemaker sites as it crawled them.
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"We have had very detailed mapping of that basin from images, from orbital spectral data, but we have not had high-resolution of its interior structure, " Grail's chief scientist, Prof Maria Zuber, who has been speaking at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in The Woodlands, Texas, told BBC News.
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This is considered a major breakthrough because it allows mapping information to be transmitted from a server instead of being stored directly on the hardware.
After the Wi-Spy Street View snafu, Google stopped mapping Wi-Fi spots with its Street View cars, instead mapping them using geolocation feedback from Android phones. (Apple does something similar with the iPhone.) Moving forward, though, Google will let Wi-Fi hotspot owners opt not to be included on the map.
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Tyler had been mapping the iron bed that runs from northern Minnesota through southern Ontario, countless tons of which have been turned into cars in Detroit.
That decision, the first of its kind, was handed down late Wednesday by a Silicon Valley federal judge presiding over nearly a dozen combined lawsuits seeking damages from Google for eavesdropping on open Wi-Fi networks from its Street View mapping cars.
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The team will continue mapping the site, integrating the data from previous two seasons.
The mapping database is constantly updated with information from Thomson Reuters and third party sources.
Mr Go reckons that urbanisation could be as low as 25%, based on data from the Global Rural Urban Mapping Project, a global population map.
Otherwise, you can expect a 1:2.2 pan sharpen ratio, and the ability to collect RGB and NIR in parallel with forward motion compensation by TDI, which will let you use the camera in a whole host of applications ranging from orthophoto production to corridor mapping to lidar integration.
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This video from the Nautilus team features highlights from the trip and the 3D mapping that came out of it.
My prevention agenda also highlights early action on conflict, such as by mapping, linking, collecting and integrating information from across the international system.
In Monday's WWDC Keynote, Apple's Scott Forstall said that the company would highlight transit apps from the App Store in its mapping product.
By the 2000s, a host of sensors -- from GPS, which enables mobile mapping, to accelerometers, which helps the phone know if it's being tilted -- were being squeezed into the gadgets.
Apple acquired several companies to construct its mapping technology, as well as using information from third parties, such as navigation system maker Tom Tom NV, before it was ready to boot Google Maps.
With generous support from the Government of Norway, a major initiative is being undertaken in the North West Frontier province, based on mapping out cultural resources, knowledge systems, from traditional arts and crafts to agricultural practices.
Some of the latest images from NASA's Global Surveyor mapping mission around the red planet are making that abundantly clear, a group of scientists and engineers interested in NASA's Mars mission set for a 2001 launch learned recently.
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