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NEWS ABOUT: map

map stories: 4 news summaries

 Google Ditches 
 Mapmakers, 
 Hires ... You? 

Google ditches industry giant for user content, and others follow

Nov 17, 09 9:56 AM CST
(Newser) - Online maps that depend on user-generated content are growing at quite a clip, even threatening the more traditional purveyors of digital cartography. The famously canny Google marked the transition last month by dropping map company Tele Atlas from its US maps, opting to rely on free info provided by the... More »

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Google • user generated content • map • Google Maps • Tele Atlas • digital maps • OpenStreetMap • mapmaking • cartogropher

 Google Earth Helps Amateur 
 Spies Map North Korea

Annotated map exposes graves, nuke facilities—and swimming pools

May 22, 09 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Spying on North Korea would seem to be a job for intelligence services, but one PhD student at George Mason University has exposed many of the secrets of the insular regime from his home computer. Piecing together clues from news reports, photos, and eyewitnesses, Curtis Melvin and colleagues have annotated... More »

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North Korea • Google • Internet • Google Earth • map • foreign intelligence

 3-D Map Adds Light Years 
 to Concept of Universe 

Survey used red shift to find relative distances of heavenly bodies

Oct 15, 08 5:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Telescope photographs of the night sky are compelling, but it’s hard to get a feel for the heavens when you’re Earthbound. The recently completed Sloan Digital Sky Survey can help: It is a 3-D map of the area within 2 billion light years of Earth that allows the... More »

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astronomy • space • telescope • digital photography • Milky Way • map • galaxy

Online Maps Give Personal View of World

User-generated custom atlases are becoming guides to everything

Jul 27, 07 2:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Taking a page from Wikipedia, Internet users are harnessing the collective knowledge of millions and applying it to maps. On the rapidly growing "GeoWeb," surfers create custom atlases using mapping technology by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and others. The user-generated maps can highlight anything from stores to previously unavailable... More »

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Yahoo • Google • Internet • Wikipedia • Microsoft • GeoWeb • map • atlas

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