S-class is an example, with an onboard navigation system to map your route, radar to watch the road ahead and automatic cruise control.
It does this by accelerating to the speed set for the taxiway, using its inbuilt GPS map system.
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The digital images are then attached to Google's online map system so visitors can virtually travel up and down a route.
Meanwhile, Dutch satellite navigation company TomTom, which provided the data for the new map system, told CNN it is not responsible for the way the maps work.
Like many cities, Greenwich has created a geographic information system - a map that shows all the hidden bones and arteries of modern civilization: water mains, storm sewers, utility lines.
All iPhone and iPad users are now forced to use the new map system when they update their software or buy the iPhone 5, which will come pre-loaded with the maps.
And some Twitter users pointed out the irony in that the new map system was unable to pinpoint an Apple store in Sydney, Australia, which it placed on the wrong side of the road.
NYPD's ComStat system, a computerised map of criminality in the city, has made a huge difference.
The Dash Express also supports WiFi to handle more bandwidth-intensive but less-frequent tasks such as downloading map or system updates.
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The company's new Map Share system, as its name suggests, lets users make changes to maps and share 'em with others.
While drivers go about their commute, the system composes a 3D map of the car's environs and commits it to memory.
Like the V-Coupe's, the V-Wagon's stability-control system has a sport map, and once engaged, it makes it hilariously easy to rotate the car under power.
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Activists have developed a system to track and map incidents of harassment through mobile phones, in an effort to challenge the social acceptability of harassment.
The district's new teacher evaluation system uses results from the MAP and state achievement exams to assign teacher ratings.
They should identify unsolved problems, map the wider system influencing results, and determine weak links to strengthen or gaps to fill.
He also now carries his own Global Positioning System (GPS) to map locations -- both familiar and obscure -- that he visits for stories.
TomTom doesn't appear to be letting that spat with Encyclopaedia Britannica stop it from rolling out new GPS devices, with its new GO 720 unit making its debut today, along with the company's new "Map Share" system.
The system has provided a single consistent map set for the entire world and made it easily accessible via computer or phone.
Over the course of 14 painstaking years the team managed to map the complete nervous system of C. elegans, work for which Dr Brenner, too, won a Nobel prize.
Most notably, an update to Apple's mobile operating system left the phone's map, which replaces Google Maps as the phone's default travel tool, a spotty mess with lots of locations missing.
The navigation system can display Google Earth imagery beneath the map overlay, which is sure to keep passengers entertained.
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FedEx's tracking system is still the industry gold standard (see map, p. 148).
At its iPad 3 unveiling Wednesday, Apple made a big deal about their new version of iPhoto built for mobile devices, featuring a system for geotagging photos and placing them on a map.
The office was in an old train depot, and we walked in to find an enormous map of the U.S. rail system.
If you get out of the range of the GPS tracking system, it will help locate your item on a map with its unique last-seen map pin-drop feature.
Most notably, an update to Apple's mobile operating system has replaced Google Maps with an Apple-designed map service that many users say is less accurate or even omits locations altogether.
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.
One example is the New York subway system, which I just love (I even have a map of it in my living room).
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Many customers say they are upset that Apple has removed mentions of public transportation routes or stations from its new map service, a popular feature on the Google system which allowed users to see bus and train schedules at individual stations.
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