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Late breaking news

November 2nd, 2008

Updated flood elevation maps will be available next week (The Vicksburg Post)

New flood elevation maps for Vicksburg and Warren County will be available for public viewing inside local government offices once they become effective Wednesday.

Ill-fated blimp’s gondola has new home at MAPS Museum (The Canton Repository)

GREEN The gondola from a Goodyear blimp found a home at MAPS Air Museum on Friday. The pilot and passenger compartment from the airship “Spirit of Akron” donated by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is expected to be on display within a week or two, said Ken Alexander, a director at MAPS.

Tax maps on website raises privacy concerns (Wiscasset Newspaper)

Westport Island will soon offer to its residents, taxpayers, and businesses digital data of the towns tax maps, property tax assessment data, which includes the map and lot number of the property, and could include the owners name unless they opt out of having their last name shown on the towns website.

Tax maps on website raises privacy concerns (Wiscasset Newspaper)

Westport Island will soon offer to its residents, taxpayers, and businesses digital data of the towns tax maps, property tax assessment data, which includes the map and lot number of the property…

Maps for Ford Florida Ironman (WJHG Panama City)

The Route, descriptions and maps for the Ford Ironman Florida at Panama City Beach November 1st

Tele Atlas and Datamap Sign Agreement for Argentina Maps (Centre Daily Times)

Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location based solutions (LBS), today announced an agreement with Argentina-based Datamap to develop and deliver digital maps and related content covering Latin America’s second largest economy.

Zeal ebbing, Fox News’ Hume ready to step down (Denver Post)

With just a handful of days left in the 2008 presidential campaign, one would assume that Brit Hume, managing editor of Fox News’ Washington bureau, would be preoccupied with voter turnout models and battleground state maps.

SEOs Make Microsoft & Yahoo An Example on Google Maps Hijacking Hole (Search Engine Roundtable)

Mike Blumenthal has been covering Google Maps spam since Google Maps came out. I guess he got sick of covering the issues and not much being done about stopping it. He decided to do something a bit extreme. He hijacked Microsoft’s listing in Google Maps and made them a Microsoft Escort Service. He also messed around with profiles, here is one example: Danny Sullivan has a really …

Parish residents get first look at new FEMA flood-impact maps (St. Tammany News)

Residents worried about their flood insurance premiums got a first look at the new high-resolution maps that show flood impact areas in the parish Wednesday at the Military Road offices of the St. Tammany Parish Department of Permits and Regulations.

Late breaking news

October 23rd, 2008

First Nation Angered by Maps (A-Channel Victoria)

Maps Point Out First Nations Burial Sites

Travel Hamburg, Germany - Illustrated Guide, Phrasebook and Maps. FREE general info in trial version (All About Symbian)

An illustrated guide and maps. Indulge Yourself with a personal tour guide on Your PDA. FREE general information chapter and a map in the trial version.

Chandrayaan to help generate moon maps (Express India)

Chandrayaan-I, India’s maiden moon mission, is carrying 11 instruments which will help prepare comprehensive maps of the earth’s only natural satellite — the moon.

Late breaking news

October 21st, 2008

MAPS Air Museum lands restored blimp gondola (Akron Beacon Journal)

GREEN: A newly restored Goodyear blimp gondola is to be transported Wednesday morning from Goodyear’s Wingfoot Lake airship base to a permanent home at the MAPS Air Museum.

New flood plain maps near reality (Dunn County News)

BOYCVILLE After a frustrating and fruitless period that spanned several years, it appears that Boycevilles attempt to secure updated flood plain zoning maps is about to bear fruit.

FEMA flood maps leave homeowners scrambling for coverage (The News-Press)

New flood maps by the Federal Emergency Management Agency have pulled thousands of Lee County properties into flood zones, forcing owners to purchase…

Frustrated by city, local man creates his own crime maps (WWL-TV, Channel 4 New Orleans)

Crime continues to plague the city of New Orleans, and some believe better awareness could bring immediate help. That’s where Brian Denzer comes in. He created his own anti-crime website to help people keep up with what’s happening around them.

Crime maps will assist criminals, warns police chief (Gulf Times)

LONDON: Criminals will be handed vital intelligence about police tactics by a new system of local internet crime maps being introduced by forces across the country, the leader of rank-and-file police officers has warned.

Xenex maps clean transition from Russia (BizJournals)

Russian-speaking infectious disease epidemiologists with some business savvy are hardly a dime a dozen.

Safety in Numbers? Poll-Driven Press Goes Out on a Limb (Washington Post)

The network maps are bathed in blue, the pundits contemplating a landslide, the conservative columnists preparing for the indignities of an Obama administration.

Ye Olde Google Charts Directions for Columbus’ First Trip [Google Maps] (Gizmodo)

This is how Ye Olde Google Charts would have mapped directions for Christopher Columbus, right before he took on his first trip to India defying the common knowledge of the time: The idea that Earth…

Bowling: Local results (Muskogee Phoenix)

Maps, Menus, Store hours, Coupons, and more… 3013-Janitorial Positions available immediately. Day & Night Shifts. Tahlequah & Muskogee area. To apply call 918-686-7966 …

Harbor Lagoons residents in flood fight (The Sandusky Register)

SANDUSKY Harbor Lagoons residents are awash with anger over the city’s newest floodplain maps.

Late breaking news

October 9th, 2008

Attention, Google Maps fans: Here come GeoEye photos (CNET)

The first image has arrived from the GeoEye-1 satellite, which will supply new high-resolution imagery to Google Maps and other customers.

No More Squinting: Google Maps’ First High-Res Satellite Images (ReadWriteWeb)

Using services like Google Maps and Google Earth has changed the way people interact with geography, compare notes with neighbors, and find their way from here to there . Still, for all the beauty of Google’s directions, “street view,” and “search nearby,” the top-down views of our world have always been a bit fuzzy and squint-inducing. Until now. Thanks to Google hitching a ride on …

Google Shows Off Maps On Android (InformationWeek)

The T-Mobile G1 will have tight integration with Google Maps, enabling location-based searches, compass mode, and more.

Google Maps Tests Geo-tagged YouTube Video (PC World)

Google is testing a new feature on its Maps site that adds geo-tagged video from YouTube to maps in the same way that photos…

DNR discloses new floodplain maps (The Sauk Prairie Eagle)

Work continues on a federal and state effort to update flood risk maps to protect people and their property.The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is hosting two open houses to showcase the preliminary maps and flood insurance studies developed for Barron, Sauk and Waupaca counties. The Sauk County meeting is at 6 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Park Plaza Hotel in Baraboo at 626 W. Pine Street and …

Donnй this fact, the notion of the roles of association still takes a greatter importance

October 8th, 2008

Donn this fact, the notion of the roles of association still takes a greatter importance. It is not enough to know that Puccini and Verdi take part in “influencer-by” association; we must know by whom was influenced which, C-with-D. which played the part of the “influencer” and which played the part of the “influencee”. It is another manner of warning to believe against that the names assigned with the types of association (as “was influenced by”) imply any kind of directionnality.

Late breaking news

October 5th, 2008

Gears 2 bonus maps leading antiresale DLC wave (GameSpot)

New copies of Epic’s anticipated Xbox 360 shooter will come with token for five reworked maps from 2006 original, Rock Band AC/DC track pack, Dead Space, and NBA Live offering similar incentives to first-time buyers.

Google Maps: #1 In Features, Market Share Rising (Search Engine Land)

As Google Maps continues to roll out new features that competing map services dont have, web users are rewarding it with big gains in traffic. A recent analyst report says Google is the number one maps site in terms of features and usability, and new Hitwise.com traffic data just shared this week with Search Engine […]

Drug Runners Had Maps of Patrols, Prosecutors Say (New York Times)

In 2006, Colombian authorities found a map with the locations of Colombian and United States Navy and Coast Guard patrol boats on a ship smuggling narcotics.

Sports Calendar for October 5, 2008 (Cumberland Times-News)

Maps, Menus, Store hours, Coupons, and more… WEST VIRGINIA NEW CONSTRUCTION ON SECULDED 5.52 ACRES!! 4 bedrooms, 3 full baths, laminate flrs, the unfinishe …

Late breaking news

October 2nd, 2008

9 p.m.: County flood maps released (The Herald Bulletin)

ANDERSON Madison County residents were given a chance to check out newly updated Federal Emergency Management Agency flood maps to determine if they must protect their homes with flood insurance.

Outgear: Don’t get lost and angry get Mad Maps (Miami Herald)

Mad Maps has unleashed four new “tour packs,” including the Pacific region, for its traveling brethren. New tour packs also are available for the Gulf Coast, Atlantic and Eastern Central regions of the United States.

MENIFEE: District seeks comment on middle school attendance maps (North County Times)

MENIFEE —- Proposed attendance boundary maps for middle school students will be presented for viewing and comment at open houses next week, school district officials said Tuesday. The Menifee Union School District is building a third middle school

Great Barrier Reef added to Google Maps (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The Great Barrier Reef off the Queensland coast has become the first marine park in the world to feature on Google Maps.

FEMA agrees to delay flood maps (St. Clair County Journal)

The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday agreed to delay when it will issue new flood maps for Illinois, putting the state on the same timetable as Missouri. The two states had been on different schedules, forcing Illinois planners to scramble and complete repairs on levees that don’t meet new standards much faster than counterparts in Missouri.

FEMA agrees to delay Illinois flood maps (Edwardsville Journal)

The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday agreed to delay when it will issue new flood maps for Illinois, putting the state on the same timetable as Missouri.

Google Touts Energy Efficient Data Centers (New York Times)

Google is many things: The most used Internet search engine, the largest seller of online advertising, the busiest online video site (YouTube), a maker of maps, e-mail and scores of other applications delivered over the Web. And all these things are possible because, first and foremost, Google is a massive collection of electricity-hungry data centers, packed with hundreds of thousands of …

Microsoft waves updated Maps, Hotmail at customers (The Register)

‘Look, we’re over here…’ Microsoft yesterday updated its Windows Live versions of Hotmail and Maps, in its latest attempt to appear relevant in the online world.

Gears 1 maps to be DLC for Gears 2 News (EuroGamer)

Epic plans to offer five multiplayer maps from Gears of War 1 as downloadable content for Gears of War 2. If legitimate (we’re checking), this should provide an adequate deterrent to buying pre-owned copies of the Xbox 360 shooter. Crafty.

Analysts: Google Maps wins, rivals ’stagnate’ (CNET)

Cowen and Co. argues that Google Maps surpasses rivals in features and will help give the company dominant mobile search share.

Late breaking news

September 28th, 2008

FEMA agrees to delay Illinois flood maps (Edwardsville Journal)

The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday agreed to delay when it will issue new flood maps for Illinois, putting the state on the same timetable as Missouri.

FEMA agrees to delay flood maps (Collinsville Herald)

The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday agreed to delay when it will issue new flood maps for Illinois, putting the state on the same timetable as Missouri. The two states had been on different schedules, forcing Illinois planners to scramble and complete repairs on levees that don’t meet new standards much faster than counterparts in Missouri.

Google Maps and ASP.NET (SYS-CON Media)

I am sure that most of you have heard about or have had a chance to use Google Maps. It’s a great service and I was really impressed by the responsiveness of the application and the ease with which users could drag and zoom maps from a Web browser. It has in many ways heralded the arrival of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), which I am sure will revitalize Web development in the days to …

Menifee Union school board to review possible middle school boundary maps (The Press-Enterprise)

The Menifee Union school board will get a first look at possible middle school boundary maps at a special meeting Tuesday. Board members will examine several possible boundary maps for the district’s middle schools at the study session.

Campaign to get coal pits on maps (BBC News)

A South Yorkshire woman takes a campaign to get coal mines recognised on Ordnance Survey maps to Westminster.

Webmonkey Maps iPhone App Developer’s Frustration (Wired News)

Apple hasn’t been at the top of its game lately in developer relations. There’s a lot to complain about: the expensive developer fee, the nondisclosure agreements, the arbitrary iPhone app process, iPhone apps dropped inexplicably from the App Store, the secrecy. Long story short, developers are mad but fear retribution based on very temperamental Apple policies. Webmonkey maps out the story and …

"Halo 3 modded maps." (EuroGamer)

Can you get banned for downloading modded halo 3 maps? changes to the scenery characters etc? i downloaded one map that has water everywere, and loads of masterchiefs just standing there.

Google Maps adds live traffic info for England (Tech Digest via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

In all honesty, I thought this feature was already active, but then I don’t drive, so what do I know? Nothing, clearly. Anyway. The Google Maps team has added live traffic information to major roads in England. Just England - no Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland just yet.

Google Adds Traffic Data To Google Maps UK (Search Engine Land)

Google Blogoscoped reports Google has added traffic data to Google Maps UK. The traffic results can be seen if you search for london and click on the “Traffic” button at the top right. Click to continue reading…

FORUMS: Candidate forums set for next four Tuesdays (The Herald Bulletin)

Maps, Menus, Store hours, Coupons, and more…

Late breaking news

September 26th, 2008

FEMA agrees to delay flood maps (Collinsville Herald)

The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday agreed to delay when it will issue new flood maps for Illinois, putting the state on the same timetable as Missouri. The two states had been on different schedules, forcing Illinois planners to scramble and complete repairs on levees that don’t meet new standards much faster than counterparts in Missouri.

FEMA agrees to delay Illinois flood maps (Granite City Press-Record)

The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday agreed to delay when it will issue new flood maps for Illinois, putting the state on the same timetable as Missouri.

Microsoft Adds Features to Live Search Maps (WebProNews)

We often get so caught up in what Google is doing with Google Maps that we sometimes forget there are other map services out there like Microsoft’s Live Search Maps . Well, they have reminded us today with the release of a bunch of new features. read more

Mash-up maps can show you almost anything you want (Honolulu Advertiser)

With Global Positioning System units and information Web sites, fewer people may be using boring folding maps these days. But online maps are seeing a resurgence, in large part because of Google Maps.

Outgear: Don’t get lost and angry get Mad Maps (The Sacramento Bee)

Mad Maps has unleashed four new “tour packs,” including the Pacific region, for its traveling brethren. New tour packs also are available for the Gulf Coast, Atlantic and Eastern Central regions of the United States.

Russian Town Puts Giant Smiley On Google Maps (Slashdot)

Toramir writes “Citizens of the Russian town Chelyabinsk calculated when the satellite, QuickBird, which takes images for Google Earth and Google Maps, would cross above their city and used people to make a giant smiley face. A rock concert on the main square attracted many people and everyone got a yellow cape. It looks like someone at Google was quicker than usual to put up the new data. Maybe …

Preliminary Flood Maps Up For Public Review (Hernando Today)

BROOKSVILLE - The revised versions of the updated flood maps that set off a wave of controversy last year will be up for review in the coming weeks. The Southwest Florida Water Management District says its improved methodology is producing higher-quality, better-detailed maps.

Serving and styling maps with Geoserver (NewsForge)

Google Maps opened up a whole new world of mapping on the Web, making it easy for companies and individuals to put their data on a map. But if you want more control over how your maps look, or have data that doesn’t really work well with Google Maps, there are other options, including serving your own data with Geoserver.

The information chosen for the representation in the chart, for the majority, corresponds to the

September 21st, 2008

The information chosen for the representation in the chart, for the majority, corresponds to the real examples of the types of entity shown in the legend. In the majority of the cases, the icon or the symbol on the chart is marked, for example, with the name of city, the name of airport, the number of road, the name of road, etc…