As a Xoogler, who has some tangential familiarity with the inner workings of Google Maps, I perhaps have a sense of the immense scale of the challenge that the Apple Maps team faced, that a lay person might not.

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And what sort of scale are you using to rate Google Maps 2005?

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On a finer scale, self-organising maps can show how particular individuals use a given file of data, such as an engineering drawing, during the course of a project.

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On a hunt or on a hike: Using a separate TOPO U.S. 24K DVD or microSD card brings you the highest level of topographic detail available, with maps comparable to 1:24, 000 scale USGS maps, featuring terrain contours, topo elevations, summits, routable roads and trails, parks, coastlines, rivers, lakes and geographical points.

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