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VIDEO: Arrest warrants, Hawkeye history, crime maps all on Data Central (The Gazette)

Zack Kucharski joins host Brian Siguenza in this week’s GO Time Webcast to talk about GazetteOnline’s Data Central section.The section includes searchable databases on everything from Iowa Hawkeye football history to crime maps, arrest reports and flood buyout information for Cedar Rapids and Iowa City property owners.New databases are being added regularly, and existing databases are updated …

Google maps guru inspires Gen Y (News Interactive)

THE British PM and a Google maps expert have teamed up and are helping young entrepreneurs achieve their dreams.

New maps reflect changed flood elevations for county (The Wahpeton Daily News)

Richland County officials and residents gathered at the Law Enforcement Center Wednesday to review changes in the new Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), which are planned to be in effect late 2009. About 10 people from the public attended the meeting.

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admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:02:20 +0000

NASA, Google Maps track Southern California wildfires (CNET)

NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer satellite delivers photos of the Southern California wildfires. Google Maps provides another way to chart the course of the fires.

Aerial maps to help fight nuisance grass (The Arizona Republic)

The maps will allow land managers at the Coronado National Forest and Saguaro National Park to figure out growth and locations of buffelgrass, said Coronado natural resource planner Rick Gerhart.

Tele Atlas and SK Energy Sign Agreement for South Korea Maps (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

S-HERTOGENBOSCH, The Netherlands—-Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location based solutions, announced today a partnership with South Korea-based SK Energy to license the SKE digital maps and enhanced content of South Korea for distribution to the global Tele Atlas customer base.

Aerial maps to help fight invasive grass in southern AZ (ABC 15 Phoenix)

Land managers in the Coronado and Saguaro National Forests are getting much needed help in fighting destructive grass growing in southern Arizona. High-tech maps from an aerial survey are expected to help them figure out growth and locations of buffelgrass.

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admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:02:18 +0000

New maps reflect changed flood elevations for county (The Wahpeton Daily News)

Maps Of Fires In Southern California: November 2008 Edition (Search Engine Land)

Fires are burning in Southern California once again. Heres an update on how to find maps of where the blazes are at: Orange County Register: Watch this newspapers Google Maps account here . This map covers the Yorba Linda / Chino fire.

The world’s a stage on Google maps (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

PITTSBURGH — Anyone using Google’s Street View map feature to scan one downtown Pittsburgh street is bound to do a double take.

Artists stage street scenes to lurk in Google maps (Connecticut Post)

PITTSBURGH — Anyone using Google’s Street View map feature to scan one downtown Pittsburgh street is bound to do a double-take. Two 17th century swordsmen doing battle?

Pinelands panel ready to redraw land-use maps (Asbury Park Press)

The first realignment of internal Pinelands zoning boundaries since the regional land-use plan took shape 28 years ago is under way, and the state Pinelands Commission has posted preliminary maps online to show areas that could be re-designated to allow less development or for more growth, in a few cases.

Google’s slick ad campaign goess off track (New York Daily News)

Google goofed. Google Maps launched a big new subway ad campaign this weekend - but they apparently forgot to ask a New Yorker how to get around underground first.

Council flat tenants banned from having welcome maps… because they are health and safety ‘trip’ hazard (Daily Mail)

Residents in a block of flats have been told to get rid of their welcome mats - because they are a trip hazard.

New County maps available (The Wilson Times)

The Wilson Chamber of Commerce has printed a new, updated map of the city of Wilson that has grown and added new streets and subdivisions. On the others side, there are maps of the county and towns, many of which are growing, too. This map is one of our most popular publications, said Bruce Beasley, president of the Wilson Chamber. People have …

Communist Party strategist maps out Obama’s agenda (WorldNet Daily)

JERUSALEM The enactment of a “single payer” socialist health care system; passing laws to make joining a labor union easier; raising the minimum wage and increasing labor union support all these are just some of the policies the Community Party USA has mapped out as crucial for Obama to push through during his term of office.

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admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:02:08 +0000

Maps Of Fires In Southern California: November 2008 Edition (Search Engine Land)

New maps reflect changed flood elevations for county (The Wahpeton Daily News)

Pinelands panel ready to redraw land-use maps (Asbury Park Press)

New County maps available (The Wilson Times)

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admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:02:15 +0000

FEMA changes flood maps (WTOC 11 Savannah)

By WTOC Staff The Federal Emergency Management Agency just updated flood maps in many southeast states, including Georgia. The other states include, but are not limited to: Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee,

State offers on-line maps of all public hunting land (Michigan Outdoor News)

Lansing - Having a difficult time finding a place to hunt? The DNR might just have an answer - or a multitude of answers - for you. They come in the form of a new collection of online maps that show all Michigan lands open to public hunting.

Maps to help with DUI laws (9 News Denver)

FORT COLLINS - Local law enforcement agencies believe new maps will help them better enforce drunken-driving laws.

New maps reflect changed flood elevations for county (The Wahpeton Daily News)

Washington County creates flood maps (The Gazette)

WASHINGTON, Iowa and#8212; Washington County has a set of Federal Emergency Management Agency flood recovery maps for the first time.The maps, which show areas subject to a 100-year flood, include approximate water flood surface elevations for all the drainage areas of more than one square mile.County Engineer Dave Patterson showed them to the Board of Supervisors at a Monday meeting. He said …

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admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:02:32 +0000

New maps help with DUI enforcement (The Fort Collins Coloradoan)

Local law enforcement agencies believe new data plotting maps will help them better enforce DUI laws.

Maps: skulduggery, distortion and lies (Times Online)

As my friends will attest, an obsession with maps is no joke. Working at a magazine based in Covent Garden in my twenties, I spent most lunch hours - time when I should have been schmoozing my way into high-powered journalism - browsing the Ordnance Surveys in Stanfords, London’s finest map shop.

Pittsburgh Artists Stage Street Scenes To Lurk In Google Maps (WTAE-TV Pittsburgh)

Two Pittsburgh artists persuade Google to let them add a little visual interest to one of the company’s street-level maps.

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admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:02:27 +0000

New high-tech FEMA maps redefine flood zones (USA Today)

New high-tech maps are forcing many U.S. homeowners to buy flood insurance for the first time, while others who have had coverage are being cleared to drop their policies.

Taiwan market: TomTom offers Google Maps download service (Digi Times)

TomTom International has announced its cooperation with Google to provide free service of downloading coordinates and POI (points of interest) from Chinese-language Google Maps onto TomTom in-car GPS (global positioning system) PNDs (portable navigation devices) in Taiwan, according to the Taiwan branch of TomTom Asia.

Engineer speaks to supervisors about FEMA maps (Washington Evening Journal)

Washington County Engineer David Patterson spoke to two members of the Washington County Board of Supervisors, Larry DeLong and Jim Miksch, about the Federal Emergency management Agency’s (FEMA) Flood Recovery Maps prepared for Washington County and how the maps will be used.

Google Maps Now Available For Blackberry Enterprise Server Distribution (ReadWriteWeb)

The iPhone may have outsold RIM’s Blackberry devices here in the U.S., but Google knows that getting their software in the hands of business execs still means building Blackberry apps. The company’s recent offering in this arena is a new, deployable package of Google Maps for Mobile which IT admins can distribute using Blackberry Enterprise Server. Sponsor Although an end user …

Springfield residents complain about new maps (Jefferson City News Tribune)

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - Plans to change the flood zone maps in Springfield have several residents upset that they will have to buy flood insurance for property that they say has never flooded.

Missouri Residents Question Accuracy of New Flood Maps (Insurance Journal)

Plans to change the flood zone maps in Springfield, Mo. have several residents upset that they will have to buy flood insurance for property that they say has never flooded. More than 100 homeowne

Map Upon Map: New Dimensions in What Maps Can Do (New York Times)

How the virtual planet becomes our index to what we know about the actual planet.

LocalGuide: Public meeting on flood maps Saturday (Billings Gazette)

MILES CITY - The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation and the Federal Emergency Management Agency will host a public meeting to review preliminary flood hazard maps for Miles City from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, at the Miles Community College Administration Building, in rooms 106 and 107.