When I asked my hotel concierge to show me Via Dante on a Palermo street map, he inquired why.
The output areas form blocks, which can be coded and drawn onto a simplified modern street map after some smoothing of edges.
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And indeed a street map of India (notoriously hard place to navigate) was already in the works, being crowd-sourced by users in India.
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The street mapping aspect of the new iOS Maps app pulls in data from Yelp and from what we can tell, Open Street Map.
The accompanying Wall Street Journal map shows Chick-fil-A's store locations charted against public sentiment toward gay marriage.
The MapSource City Select CD-ROM comes standard so you can download detailed street-level map data, look up more than five million points of interest or just navigate to an address in the United States or Canada.
In Austria, Ars Electronica, a collaborative behind a digital arts festival, museum and lab, helped Siemens develop a car navigation system that shows the driver a video of the street rather than a map.
In Austria, Ars Electronica, a collaborative behind a digital arts festival, museum and lab, helped Siemens (nyse: SI - news - people ) develop a car navigation system that shows the driver a video of the street rather than a map.
This information is shown through charts, illustrations, reports and a variety of map representations including street, photo, topographic.
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You could see Flickr photos, recent muggings, local news stories and home foreclosures on your street, viewed as a map, list or RSS feed.
Is it possible, in the crazy there-one-minute-gone-the-next lifestyle that expats live, to meet someone while staring at a map on a street corner that is everything you never knew you needed?
But responses from scientists and a Wall Street analyst were all over the map.
He can draft a contract, train a falcon, draw a map, stop a street fight, furnish a house and fix a jury.
This report centers on how researchers in Arizona are now able to map carbon emissions at street level in real time in cities around the globe.
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Pattern analysis -- the heart of data mining -- is conventional crime-solving, whether the suspicious patterns are spotted on a crime pin map, on a city street, or in an electronic database.
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You can give information about a street which is not necessarily in the map set because it's brand new -- this is something that no device was ever able to do in the past.
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Anyone with something to add can enter a street address and leave a marker on the map at that location, providing a few lines of text about conditions at that spot.
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).
In one of its many attempts to make the world more accessible and interconnected, the Internet giant sends cars out with cameras mounted on their hoods in order to photograph and map the world down to the street level.
It seems the 315-year-old map was found by divers capturing Google Maps underwater street view images.
New features include "immersive imagery, " and the map itself is now the user interface -- with Street View and Google Earth integration.
But by placing crime data onto a map showing your town, your neighbourhood and even your street, the statistics suddenly start to hit home.
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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Here, you'll find the ability to view map overlays from multiple carriers, along with the ability to zoom into a street-level view.
The information is shown as location trails on a computer screen map, down to a level of detail which shows on which side of the street and in which direction a person is moving.
It may be that the situation on Wall Street is so complex, and the stakes so high, that lawmakers themselves have little confidence in their abilities to map a successful recovery for the industry, so they are relying on the sheer magnitude of their spending and the ingenuity of those left standing on Wall Street to work their market magic and revive the economy.
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