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Archive for April, 2008

Late breaking news

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

New maps show aftermath of over-pumping groundwater (Casa Grande Dispatch)

The first in a series of detailed maps of earth fissures caused by excessive groundwater pumping in Pinal County has been released by the Arizona Geological Survey.

Warming shifts gardeners’ maps (USA Today)

A growing number of meteorologists and horticulturists say that because of the warming climate, the 1990 U.S. climate zone map doesn’t reflect a trend that home gardeners have noticed for more than a decade: a gradual shift northward of growing zones for many plants.

Event schedule, course maps and profiles for Masters Road Nationals (usacycling.org)

Attention Masters Athletes: Following last week’s announcement regarding the registration procedures, rules and eligibility requirements for the 2008 USA Cycling Masters Road National Championships, USA Cycling today released further information, including a complete event schedule, course maps and profiles and lodging information. All information pertaining to the 2008 USA Cycling Masters Road …

New forest maps detail open roads (Billings Gazette)

Maps designating open routes for motorized travel on the Lewis and Clark National Forest in the Little Belt and Crazy mountain ranges should be available by mid-May.

Google Maps Currently Does Not Support Multi-Language Listings (Search Engine Roundtable)

A Google Groups thread confirms that Google Maps is lacking support for a common feature needed both here in the States and overseas, support for multi-language listings. A Google Groups member asked: As a multilingual company our website is in more than one language and each language has the same name but different URL. Should I create a listing for each language? Google’s official …

XING Locates Business Contacts With Google Maps (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)

XING today announced a new feature with which its members can view the distribution of their business network with Google Maps. The integration of Google Maps into the XING platform gives members a new perspective on their personal network, visualizing geographic locations of their direct business contacts on a map or satellite display.

New flood maps in Georgia (Anderson Independent-Mail)

Some people might be affected if the new maps place a home in a flood plain, officials said

Zoning maps to be unveiled this weekend (Ravalli Republic)

After months of hard work, Ravalli County citizens will be able to see first hand what zoning looks like on paper as seven different zoning maps will be unveiled on Saturday.

Google Maps Tilt with ThinkPad

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Control Google Maps using ThinkPad’s Motion sensor. Read more at http://bulknews.typepad.com/blog/2006/06/control_google_.html

Late breaking news

Monday, April 21st, 2008

18-year-old SC student accused of plotting to bomb school (AP via Yahoo! News)

A high school senior collected enough supplies to carry out a bomb attack on his school and detailed the plot in a hate-filled diary that included maps of the building and admiring notations about the Columbine killers, authorities said Sunday.

The Mapping of Ukraine: European Cartography and Maps of Early Modern Ukraine, 1550-1799 in NY-NJ-Metro on 04/20/2008 (BRAMA)

Sunday, April 20, will see the opening of a major exhibition of antiquarian maps at the Museum.

Travel maps pop up in court battle (Times Online)

A design for a foldaway map inspired by a 2,000-year-old origami called the Unfolding Flower is at the centre of a High Court copyright hearing. Derek Dacey, 58, the inventor, claims that his design has been stolen.

South Carolina Student’s Bomb Plot Foiled (CBS News)

A high school senior collected enough supplies to carry out a bomb attack on his school and detailed the plot in a hate-filled diary that included maps of the building and admiring notations about the Columbine killers, authorities said.

Australia ‘ideas summit’ maps new national path (The Christian Science Monitor)

Australians submitted 8,000 ideas. Experts picked 40.

Nation/World Briefs (Detroit News)

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A high school senior collected enough supplies to carry out a bomb attack on his school and detailed the plot in a hate-filled diary that included maps of the building and admiring notations about the Columbine killers, authorities said Sunday. Ryan Schallenberger, 18, was arrested Saturday after his parents called police when 10 pounds of ammonium nitrate was delivered to …

S.C. student accused of bomb plot (The State)

A high school senior collected enough supplies to carry out a bomb attack on his school and detailed the plot in a hate-filled diary that included maps of the building and admiring notations about the Columbine killers, authorities said Sunday. Ryan Schallenberger, 18, was arrested Saturday after his parents called police when 10 pounds of ammonium nitrate was delivered to their home in …

Parents turn in teen who planned Columbine-style attack (Sydney Morning Herald)

Police have arrested a teen who collected enough supplies to carry out a bomb attack on his school and detailed the plot in a hate-filled diary that included maps of the building and admiring notations about the Columbine killers.

Google offers the world glimpses of Inland Valley (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)

With an update to the “Street View” feature on Google Maps, people across the world can now view street-level images of the Inland Valley. Local coverage of the region - once confined to images of only the 10 Freeway - is now incredibly comprehensive

April 19: HONOR ROLL: Madison-Grant HS (The Herald Bulletin)

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

Late breaking news

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

The Mapping of Ukraine: European Cartography and Maps of Early Modern Ukraine, 1550-1799 in NY-NJ-Metro on 04/20/2008 (BRAMA)

Sunday, April 20, will see the opening of a major exhibition of antiquarian maps at the Museum.

Maps predict places at greatest risk (The New Straits Times)

IMAGINE opening a map and immediately being able to identify the area where a dengue outbreak is going to occur. Now imagine doing this monthly and preventing an outbreak.

Beach maps, stats online (Jacksonville Daily News)

MOREHEAD CITY - The Carteret County Shore Protection Office has launched a new service that uses the latest technology to put information about beach nourishment, beach access locations and other coastal information on the area in the hands of the public.

Anoka County plotted its own route to update flood maps (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Every other county in the Twin Cities metro area is scheduled to receive updated flood maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. What happened to the new maps for Anoka County?

Exhibition on ancient Egypt maps decades of Czech research (Prague Daily Monitor)

Prague, April 17 (CTK) - Uncovering Ancient Egypt is the name of an exhibition that maps the decades of Czech archaeologists’ work and that will be inaugurated in Prague on Friday within Year of Czech Archaeology marking the 50th anniversary of the Czech Egyptological Institute.

GPS thefts: Devices are easy targets (The Fayetteville Observer)

Using built-in maps, a Global Positioning System can give you turn-by-turn directions to get across town or across the country. The ones designed for use in cars run from $150 to $1,400.

100 years of parks: Officials look to future as city system marks anniversary (La Crosse Tribune)

To explain the future of parks in La Crosse, three men use three maps. Sitting in the Mississippi Valley Conservancy office, executive director Tim Jacobson pulls out the La Crosse Bluffland Preservation map. It shows about 3,000 acres of land on the eastern side of La Crosse that planners are working to turn into an 8-mile natural city park.

Manpower Software plc Implements its MAPS Maritime Solution Onboard the New P&O Cruise Ship `Ventura’ (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Manpower Software plc, a leading provider of workforce optimisation solutions, is pleased to announce that the new P&O cruise ship, Ventura, will be using MAPS Maritime Suite to provide operational efficiencies across crew scheduling.

Local Roundup 04-20-08 (Stillwater NewsPress)

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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 16th Apr 2006 19:56 UTC (OS News)

Defect removal is preferred over defect survival. If some defect slips through the cracks, however, the C++ exception handling mechanism helps to fortify your software’s fault tolerance, as Cameron and Tracey Hughes explain . Also, elsewhere on the same site, old maps were marked with the phrase “Here be Dragons” to help seafarers steer away from dangerous places; in programming the best way to …

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Saturday, April 19th, 2008

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Late breaking news

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Anoka County plotted its own route to update flood maps (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Every other county in the Twin Cities metro area is scheduled to receive updated flood maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. What happened to the new maps for Anoka County?

Google Maps Now Offers Traffic Predictions (Search Engine Land)

Late last week Microsoft Live Maps introduced “ClearFlow,” based on four years of work and data collection. ClearFlow is intended to provide traffic predictions and better secondary routing. Now, as reported in Google Operating System, Google Maps has introduced its own version of traffic predictions, based on historical traffic information. Click to continue reading… …

Maps Image Provider DigitalGlobe Files For $250 Million IPO (CBS News)

DigitalGlobe, a provider of satellite imagery for maps, whose clients include Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Maps and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Virtual Earth, filed for an IPO of up to $250 million this week. How, you might be asking, is this company going public now, during a rather chilly period for IPOs? Well, it’s solidly profitable, having earned $37.9 million in 2007 (excluding a major income tax …

Maps Image Provider DigitalGlobe Files For $250 Million IPO (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance)

DigitalGlobe, a provider of satellite imagery for maps, whose clients include Google Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth, filed for an IPO of up to $250 million this week. How, you might be asking, is this company going public now, during a rather chilly period for IPOs?

State Issues New Highway Maps (The Morning News)

LITTLE ROCK - The 2008 version of the official Arkansas state highway map is now available.

Halo 3 releases new maps for multiplayer gaming (Arkansas State University Herald)

Since its release on September 25th 2007, Halo 3 has seen steadily decreasing numbers from its online multiplayer system, Xbox Live. The most likely suspect for the cause in this numerical decrease is the engaging multiplayer of last year’s release, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

Legendary maps for Halo 3 unleashed (Ferrago)

The much-touted Legendary Map Pack for Halo 3 has finally been released via Xbox Live - 800 Microsoft Points will deliver you fresh Forge options, and three new multiplayer maps.

Google Maps set to include YouTube videos (Macworld UK)

Google has announced that local business owners can now add YouTube videos to their listings in Google Maps.

Businesses add YouTube to Google Maps listings (PC Advisor)

Embedded videos used as online marketing tool Local business owners in the US can now add YouTube videos to their listings, after Google added the feature to Google Maps.

Google Maps set to include YouTube videos (Computerworld Singapore)

FRAMINGHAM, 15 APRIL 2008 - Google Monday announced that local business owners can now add YouTube videos to their listings in Google Maps. Google said that adding the capability to Google maps was a natural extension to its move last year to allow geotagged YouTube videos to run in Google Earth.

Late breaking news

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Maps Image Provider DigitalGlobe Files For $250 Million IPO (CBS News)

DigitalGlobe, a provider of satellite imagery for maps, whose clients include Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Maps and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Virtual Earth, filed for an IPO of up to $250 million this week. How, you might be asking, is this company going public now, during a rather chilly period for IPOs? Well, it’s solidly profitable, having earned $37.9 million in 2007 (excluding a major income tax …

Maps Image Provider DigitalGlobe Files For $250 Million IPO (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance)

DigitalGlobe, a provider of satellite imagery for maps, whose clients include Google Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth, filed for an IPO of up to $250 million this week. How, you might be asking, is this company going public now, during a rather chilly period for IPOs?

Legendary maps for Halo 3 unleashed (Ferrago)

The much-touted Legendary Map Pack for Halo 3 has finally been released via Xbox Live - 800 Microsoft Points will deliver you fresh Forge options, and three new multiplayer maps.

Google Maps set to include YouTube videos (Macworld UK)

Google has announced that local business owners can now add YouTube videos to their listings in Google Maps.

Late breaking news

Friday, April 11th, 2008

In ‘Maps’ Exhibit, The Journey Is The Destination (Washington Post)

BALTIMORE — “Maps: Finding Our Place in the World” at the Walters Art Museum has the one from the 1883 edition of “Treasure Island,” which leads to buried gold, X marking the spot.

Flood maps countywide set to change (The Daily Mail)

CATSKILL If you live close to a wetland, stream, river or lake, new flood maps being adopted countywide next month may put your home in a flood zone.

Four Year Effort Culiminates In "ClearFlow" Traffic On Microsoft Live Search Maps (Search Engine Land)

Today in 72 US cities, Microsoft is introducing what it calls “ClearFlow” on Live Search Maps . It’s an improved traffic and routing service that relies on machine learning and predictive modeling to offer better traffic and routing information to consumers across the US. Microsoft employee and artificial intelligence expert Eric Horvitz initiated the project in roughly 2003. He told me that …

Expanded Flood Maps Anger New Jersey Homeowners (Insurance Journal)

Federal Emergency Management Administration officials have unleashed a torrent of complaints over new flood-zone maps in Monmouth County’s Bayshore region. The proposed maps show nearly 4,400 more

Boris Johnson: crime maps should be public (Daily Telegraph)

Secret crime maps should be made public to let residents see how many assaults, muggings and burglaries are committed on their doorsteps, London mayoral candidate Boris Johnson said yesterday.

FEMA Releases Flood Maps for Vermilion Parish (KATC 3 Lafayette)

New flood maps are under review by residents in Vermilion Parish. This is the first time since Hurricane Rita that Parish residents are getting solid information on how high they need to build homes.

Vermont Towns Try to Find Their Roads Less Traveled (New York Times)

Volunteers are poring over record books to find evidence of every road ever legally created in their towns so that they can be added to official maps, ensuring that they remain public, or turn them over to land owners.

Flood Zone Maps Upset Monmouth Co. Homeowners (1010 WINS New York)

Federal Emergency Management Administration officials have unleashed a torrent of complaints over new flood-zone maps in Monmouth County’s Bayshore region.

Google maps raise refugee awareness (TVNZ)

Google technology first envisaged as a video game backdrop has been adapted to raise awareness - and potentially financial support - for the plight of refugees and vulnerable people once far from the public eye.

NY OFFERS MAPS OF HUDSON (New York Post)

THE Hudson River of fers great boating and fishing opportunities and accessing them was made easier by New York through maps the state has created. With new maps developed by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), it will now be a lot…

Projections of chart enable us to represent a part or all surface ground, with a large variety of

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Projections of chart enable us to represent a part or all surface ground, with a large variety of balances, on an apartment, easily transportable surface, such as a paper sheet. Projections of chart also apply to the numerical chart the data, which can be presented on a screen of computer. There are hundreds of various projections of chart.

Like a radiant sun gleam

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

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