To that end, Mr. MacKerron expects to link the information to weather reports, online mapping systems and demographics databases.
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It has been popular outside the U.S., where Google first introduced it, especially in countries where online mapping technology was not widely available.
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Sustrans is marking the occasion with the release of new video, 'Lucy's Cycling Treasure Hunt', heralding the online mapping as a new beginning.
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Nokia has bought online-mapping and mobile-networking businesses in recent years to reinforce its offerings.
There, a wall of black refrigerator-size devices inspected the Internet traffic, opening emails, divining passwords, snooping on online chats and mapping connections among various suspects.
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Yet ESRI itself, until now focused mainly on high-end corporate and government clients, is responding to the Google excitement by making its latest software features available online to the mapping masses.
Those applications now include online payment, video, mapping, e-mail, social networking, search and soon, DoubleClick's behavior-tracking advertising data.
He pledged to push ahead with electronic school report cards, online GP appointment booking, neighbourhood "crime mapping" and video identification of suspects.
Microsoft said its mapping services provide other measurement points about online sales such as the amount of space the ad takes up on a Web page and how many times a user sees an ad.
Microsoft also declared it's making strides in so-called engagement mapping services to help advertisers gain greater insights into consumers' buying decisions online.
The problem was that someone at Apple decided to rip Google Maps out of the iPhone and make Apple Maps the default mapping application, as part of the crushing tectonic plate-like battle between these online behemoths.
The success of Android helps Google to ensure that its search engine its most important source of revenue as well as mapping and other services, are preloaded on mobile devices, through which consumers are spending more time online.
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