Mapping services find themselves today's hot commodity
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Two major global information system (GIS) and satellite imagery acquisitions were announced on Wednesday, illustrating the continuing desirability of such services to both hardware and software manufacturers.
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Redmond fights Google, one grid at a time Global OS leviathan Microsoft has continued buying trendy stuff, announcing that it had bought UK ad-driven mapping service Multimap today.â¦
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Two firms are racing to map the world as the Internet goes increasingly mobile with ever more sophisticated gadgets for people on the move.
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Someday soon, many cell phones might store as many as 2,000 songs -- or enough map data for a built-in GPS to steer you any place on the planet.
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Yahoo Maps gets a great new upgrade that helps users reroute their driving directions.
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Digital cartographer Tele Atlas NV has brought its first orange mapping van to Asia as a part of its effort to collect global data for portable, Internet, in-car and wireless navigation systems.
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U.S. mobile phone users might not have to stop and ask for directions as often thanks to a new service from MapQuest.com that sends color maps and directions to their phones.
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Microsoft has teamed up with Intermap to give its 3-D maps in Great Britain a more realistic look through the use of the company's elevation data. Maps are also in the works for Western Europe and the continental US.
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Voter databases are old hat to political campaigns. But by taking that same data and overlaying it on a map -- a technology called geographic information systems -- operatives are becoming more effective at getting out the vote. By Jacob Ogles.
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The mapping service's images will be refreshed when a new, high-resolution satellite beams updates.
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The company seems to be focused on developing a solution that would enable users to access complete directions and maps using a portable device.
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A new tool based on satellite data shows trends in the way Europeans use our landscape.
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One hot market is about to get a whole lot more interesting.
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&quot;Application and subscriber-aware technology solutions like P-Cube&#39;s provide the ability to differentiate and control new content-based data services.
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Spy maps of Britain compiled by the Soviet Union during the Cold War contain such a wealth of information that a digital mapping firm has bought them for use by property developers.
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Have you ever wondered how panoramic street-level map imagery is collected? They roll a Toyota van tricked out with tens of thousands of dollars worth of cameras, laser range detectors and global positioning hardware through the streets. Check it out.
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Leave it to Google Inc. to innovate. Its new online mapping service produces impressive U.S. maps that please the eye and are fun to navigate. And unlike competing services, you can put all your search terms into one box.