Better to have that piece of work done locally by all the endpoints and have them send a light information stream to the center: a single map coordinate rather than a bunch of tower coordinates and distance measurements.

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The size of the game terrain would normally be limited by available system resources, since just the contours of a single map can weigh up to 128MB -- too burdensome for most systems to store, process and display in real-time.

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The system has provided a single consistent map set for the entire world and made it easily accessible via computer or phone.

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The moon, with automated probes dedicated to map every single inch of its surface, is probably less mysterious.

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In 2008, Cameroon was among the first African countries to contribute to the OneGeology initiative, which aims to make a single trans-national geological world map accessible online.

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And its publishers deserve to be criticised for failing to include a single illustration of this highly photogenic subject nor even one map, an omission that makes whole chapters needlessly hard to follow.

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Some estimates suggest that if current technology were used, it would take years to map the roughly 10, 000 synapses that branch from just a single neuron.

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Europe was less a region on the map than a state of mind, and bundling as many countries as possible into a single week appealed to workers with precious few opportunities to travel.

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But it seems now, if you look at the Iraqi map, in the last 48 hours or so, the insurgency has spread to almost every single town, Baghdad, Kufa, Basra, Najaf, Nasiriya, Ramadi.

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