The darker the blue the higher the fraction of foreign Facebook connections with the imperial power in question. (Facebook has not shared the underlying percentage data, just the ranking.) These closely correspond to countries or territories which were, whether wholly or in part, at one point under British, French, Spanish or Portuguese rule, as seen in the bottom set of maps.
MessageLabs, the email-filtering company that Symantec acquired in 2008, posted a set of word maps today measuring the frequency of terms in spam emails from a random one-week sampling of junk mail pulled from the most prolific spam-spewing botnets.
One sweet new feature is the inclusion of a 2.6GB hard drive, which obviates the need to be switching SD cards when you need to change map sets (units will ship with a full set of street level maps of Europe).
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Another Google-dodging feature in the new browser: Highlighting a street address on a Web page launches a map, with the default set to Microsoft's Live Maps (though you can change this default to Google Maps).
The result is not so much an exact map of the landscape as a set of directions, but such recombination maps prove very useful.
When the iPhone 5 and the latest mobile operating system were launched in September, they came without Google Maps, as Apple set about launching its own mapping ecosystem.
Those maps will be used to set premium rates for flood insurance and play a role in building codes and other regulations.
You can watch television, access the internet, use email, obtain weather reports, set an alarm clock, keep a calendar, use GPS and maps to gain directions, take photos, etc.
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Ever since Googlereleased easy-to-use software tools for its nifty on-screen maps of streets and satellite images a year ago, fans have set off an explosion of creative overlaps, adding their own useful and sometimes quirky data.
You can add events to your personal schedule and set an alert to remind you, and get details about facilities using interactive, searchable maps.
That, in turn, has set off a race among companies like SpotCrime to turn crime data into mash-ups of maps and analytics, producing charts and graphs in Web-friendly formats.
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Mr Marek set off, with his brother in tow, armed with vague geographical information from 1920s research and topographical maps to see if they could pinpoint the mysterious animal.
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