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.
Citizens used the map to track where crimes rose and fell, and when.
If you get out of range, a GPS function allows you to track your items on a map.
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Another clever idea would allow users to track each other on a map.
However, they intentionally dont allow the fast exploring as there is a title track for exploring the entire map.
"The Google crisis response team has assembled a Hurricane Sandy map to help you track the storm's progress and provide updated emergency information, " wrote Google software engineer Ka-Ping Yee on the firm's blog.
To help you keep track, Forbes has just updated our map here, showing the 2011 estate tax law in all the states.
Proximo delivers a unique way to track multiple valuables with a last-seen map pin-drop feature, an active proximity dashboard and extended battery life on both its Fob and Tag.
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Health professionals around the world already use online tools, such as Google Flu Trends, Health Map or Global Public Health Intelligence Network to track the spread of infectious diseases.
Since launching in December with Rdio, interactive mapping has become one of the most popular SoundHound features as users can tap on a SoundHound'ed song displayed on the map and link directly to Rdio to hear the full track.
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For example, the analysis does not track changes over time in the areas being farmed, using instead a crop map from around 2000.
At one of Gore's main rivals, Associated Air Center in Dallas, the company keeps track of its sales with little flags stuck into a wall-size world map outside its sales office.
Most mobile robots do this using a technique called SLAM (simultaneous localisation and mapping), whereby they build up a map of their unknown environment, using various sensors, whilst keeping track of their current position at the same time.
Or you can be lazy about it, you can turn on passive tracking and just walk around with the app running and it will track your travels and plot your photos, comments and saved locations to the map, giving you an animated diary of your day.
Ushahidi has been used to track violence in the Eastern Congo, monitor elections in India and Mexico, and even map crime in Atlanta.
The device won't let you make voice calls or surf the Web, but it does offer a host of safety features: It can map a bread-crumb trail of your coordinates so that people back home can track your whereabouts from any Web browser.
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The problem with the indoor maps is that, whether Google has permission to track your location or not, users will essentially hand over that permission every time they look at a map.
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