We could see drones accompanying early morning joggers, taking sport, wildlife, and other photography to a new level, or mapping out hard-to-reach geographic terrain.
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And (speaking of real estate) which sort of ad is more likely to sell a house nowadays: the newspaper's truncated description with a single, low-resolution thumbnail, or a virtual tour with live mapping services and geographical and geopolitical information with feature comparisons to other properties available?
Combining mapping with user-generated witness reports, Ushahidi, or "testimony, " tracked incidents of deaths, rioting, looting and rape, all sent in by concerned Kenyans.
Meanwhile, the feds' fuel-economy administrators are currently operating at a dead run trying to keep up with a host of new, highly digitized fuel-saving technologies, such as "Eco" throttle mapping and stop-start (the engine cuts out as the vehicle coasts or stops), which were practically invented to hack the EPA testing cycle.
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They include a mapping service keeping the government accountable on schools that it has agreed to build or expand -- the map reveals any progress -- or lack thereof.
It added that its site goes further than the Home Office crime-mapping website www.police.uk which does not distinguish stranger attacks from domestic or acquaintance violence and "can make people assume the risk to them of violent crime is worse than it is".
All models have the ability to upgrade to Garmin navigation via a special app (available on the Apple iTunes Store), which downloads the mapping database directly onto an iPhone 4 or 4s and allows for instantaneous routing and re-routing without the need for continuous 3G, 4G or LTE service, avoiding long download times and high data charges.
Google has suggested it could sell auto makers the mapping and machine-vision technology it's developing for its self-driving cars, or offer that technology for free as part of a package of other Google products and services.
Meanwhile, a handful of add-on products for Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Pocket PC platform have over the past year or so shown that the platform can handle mapping easily.
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