"New Yorkers drew the maps, " Ms. Sadik-Khan said of the painstaking, month-long process, which included sessions at which residents annotated maps with stickers.

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To make this a super easy process, just use an online directions website such as Google Maps or MapQuest and enter your start and finish addresses.

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Compaq got a head start on the cost-reduction process by fielding more than 200 teams to draw up "road maps" detailing products Compaq would continue to produce and how they would be marketed and sold.

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Apple hasn't exactly kept its cards close to its chest in regards to iOS 6: Cupertino teased the software at WWDC, letting us in on the direct Facebook integration, the new Maps application, Passbook and "Do Not Disturb" in the process.

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Instead, they choose to shroud the whole process in mystery even with such high-profile partners as Microsoft, which has offered up its Bing Maps software for the program.

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