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Archive for March, 2008

Late breaking news

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Now you can find Baltimore in the Festival of Maps (Newsday)

Baltimore is hosting a Festival of Maps this spring, with exhibits of maps ranging from ancient Rome and outer space to Baltimore neighborhoods, along with tours and workshops sponsored by more than 20 arts and cultural organizations.

Central Arkansas is now on Google Maps Street View (FOX 16 Little Rock)

Google Maps is introducing street level maps to the central Arkansas area.

New maps put all of Terrebonne at risk for flooding (The Houma Courier)

HOUMA Terrebonne Parish officials are bracing for the release of updated federal flood insurance maps, which they say put the entire parish in a flood zone.

Central Arkansas is now on Google Maps Street View (CW Arkansas)

Google Maps is introducing street level maps to the central Arkansas area. Let’s say you’re trying to tell a friend to meet you at the ballpark for a Travs game but they don’t know how to get there. You can just put the marker on the map where Dickey Stephens is and the picture pops up.

Lake maps (The Daily Iowegian)

From hand-drawn to Global Positioning System produced maps

First bonus UT3 maps on US PSN by Rob Purchese (EuroGamer)

Plus info on upcoming COD4 maps. If you would like to comment on this article, then you must be logged in! Be the first to write a comment!

Etrian Odyssey II Maps Out US Release [Game Announce] (Addict 3D)

If you’re looking for a truly hardcore RPG experience on the Nintendo DS, you can’t get much better than Etrian Odyssey - so hardcore you had to draw your own damn maps! Now the combination RPG and cartography sim returns with Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard.

3/27/08 Daily Gaming Refresh Free Halo 3 Maps Edition (AnandTech)

Halo 3, Unreal Tournament III maps available for free download…

MDOT posts maps for NCAA Regional, Tigers opener (Battle Creek Enquirer)

The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is putting maps and detailed directions on the MDOT Web site to assist motorists heading to Detroit this weekend for two signature sporting events.

National Geo project maps more than geography (Missoulian)

KALISPELL - A map can show you where you are, surely, can put you in your place and perhaps even get you where you’re going. A map can keep you oriented, plot position on paper, chart the four cardinal points and the lay of the land in two very detailed dimensions.

Google Maps: Create Personalised Maps

Friday, March 21st, 2008

http://maps.google.co.uk - Easily create and share personalised, annotated maps of your world (in synch this time!)

The original version of this article was published in June 2000 and thus antedates the development

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

The original version of this article was published in June 2000 and thus antedates the development of XTM (the matter of XML traces). The goal of XTM was to adapt the standard of matter chart (OIN 13250) for the use with XML and Web XTM provides an alternative, syntax XML-based to express the matter traces and clarifies also certain concepts, particularly those concerning the subjected identity.

Late breaking news

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

FEMA to unveil county’s preliminary flood maps (Asbury Park Press)

New preliminary flood maps of Monmouth County will be unveiled by state officials and the Federal Emergency Management Agency in a series of upcoming public meetings, the first of which will be held Monday at the Monmouth County Library, Eastern Branch.

Maps show the world what Oxford is all about Provides high quality imagery of the county (Woodstock Sentinel-Review)

WOODSTOCK - For the first time since the inception of Google Maps, users of the popular online service can access high quality detailed images of Oxford County.

The way we were: Walters Art Museum unfolds the greatest maps of the world (Carroll County Online)

BALTIMORE - Maps today are a bit impersonal, usually accessed via a quick click of the mouse or the touch of a GPS screen. Maps are still invaluable, though they used to be brilliant works of art. Some - and this is no overstatement - changed the world.

Great news maps (CyberJournalist.net)

Poynter Online Amy Gahran points out a number of excellent news maps in this post. [visit site to read more]

Late breaking news

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Monmouth’s new flood maps can be viewed Monday (Asbury Park Press)

New preliminary flood maps of Monmouth County will be unveiled by state officials and the Federal Emergency Management Agency in a series of upcoming public meetings, the first of which will be held Monday at the Monmouth County Library, Eastern Branch.

Water use by area shown on city maps (The News & Observer)

New maps produced by the city of Raleigh site show residents how much water their neighborhoods are using compared to other parts of town.

"Google Earth Town" Nanaimo Wires Self To Google Maps To Drive Tourism (Search Engine Land)

How Google Earth Ate Our Town from Time Magazine highlights Nanaimo, a British Columbia town on Vancouver Island, also known as “Google Earth Town” or “the capital of Google Earth.” Nanaimo has been plotting virtually all of their town’s data directly on Google Maps and Google Earth. From real-time firefighter calls on Google Maps to a wide array of Google Earth KLMs available at …

New flood maps available (Tacoma Business Examiner)

Federal Emergency Management Agency and the state Department of Ecology have begun to release to the public official, digital maps of areas prone to flooding.

Residents await flood maps so they can stop paying flood insurance (Portage Daily Register)

Residents in Portage’s first ward anxiously are awaiting approval of new flood-plain maps so they can stop paying flood insurance mandated by lenders.Lori Olson has been paying $800 annually for flood insurance for her home near the intersection of Thompson and Brady streets. When she bought the house in 2005, she was told the flood-plain restriction soon would be lifted.”I never would have …

Google Maps show & tell like never before (San Antonio Express-News/KENS 5)

San Antonio woman says Street View feature puts too much information on the Internet