A Free Mapping Service Can Help Find the Answer
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By David Bauerlein, The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville  May 25--Len LeBlanc's backyard used to face a green wall of wilderness.  The thick stand of trees sold him on buying the lot where he built a home in  Jacksonville's Harbor Winds subdivision.
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Manually tagging things is a pain and, if one doesn't have obvious geographical features in the photo, it may be hard to locate them exactly on a map. So--how about marrying GPS data to the photos? It's a sound idea, it's doable, but it requires a slightl
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New Scholar service promises next level of search engines.
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Yeah, but what's that in cubic furlongs? Those among you who recently adopted the new Vulture Central standards of volume, length, area and, critically, the speed of sheep in a vacuum, might be interested to learn that Google Maps has decided to offer a few alternatives of its own.â¦
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Science & environment: William the Conqueror's great census is made available free on the internet
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A map-loving web programmer has turned one of Google Maps' standard features into a simple publishing tool. With a little help from Yahoo Pipes, Tony Hirst's My Maps mashup can generate blog posts with location data attached. Readers of your blog will not know what happened and when, nor where.
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David Coallier has an update today on the effort to get PEAR developers all over the world mapped out to a Google map to show their locations - one that's finally been launched.   Over the past weeks we have had many people asking around if it would be possible to have a place to see the pear developers around the world. Well now Christian Weiske and I (With the help of Arnaud Limbourg) have put up a nice little map system on pear.php.net. You can see it at http://pear.php.net/map/   David also links to images of some of the administration panels for the application (one, two, three) and the connection information for a web service (REST) that allows access to all of the data.
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Just in time for a 1,500 mile road trip tomorrow, AOL owned MapQuest has announced the launch of their new MapQuest Gas Price Finder which allows MapQuest users search for the cheapest prices for gas, diesel or alternative fuels. Features include (from MapQuest PR department): *  Convenience and integration of MapQuest&#8217;s directions feature allows consumers to [...]
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Something seems to be missing from online weather maps.
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With no fear of the confusion that can arise from text-message shorthand, a new search service is employing a novel tool to answer queries sent by cell phones: human beings.
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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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Developing mapping software? Autodesk plans to release a handy coordinate conversion tool as open-source software.
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You can look at a U.S. map with a marker for each IT facility and receive instant reporting if there is a problem with the availability, performance or security of one of your systems.
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EveryScape's 3-D maps go one step further than Google: They let you explore the insides of buildings, too. The service, launching next week, will give virtual explorers views of restaurants, hotels and landmarks in San Francisco, Boston, New York and Seattle.
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One of the major issues plaguing search engines right now is the growing list of web documents available online. While no exact numbers are available, there are billions of search results to sort through. But, they can&#8217;t all be relevant both on material content and time &#8212; can they?  Of course they&#8217;re not, and Google [...]
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A service starting next month in Paris will allow a cellphone or GPS navigation device to search a parking lot database for nearby parking spots.
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A free mobile phone applet neutralizes the excuse of not knowing where to find an alternative fueling station. In Autopia.