News tagged with cartographer
Google turns to users for guidance on US maps
(AP) -- Google Inc. doesn't hesitate to seek directions when it comes to trying to improve its online mapping service.
Apr 19, 2011 |
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Mystery of Mount Rainier survey marker melts away
Is global warming shrinking Mount Rainier? A survey marker atop the Northwest's tallest peak sure makes it look that way.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 02, 2009 |
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France convicts Google Maps for unfair competition
A French commercial court has found Google guilty of abusing the dominant position of its Google Maps application and ordered it to pay a fine and damages to a French mapping company.
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Distribution atlas of butterflies in Europe
Scientists present the largest distribution data compilation ever on butterflies of an entire continent. The Germany based Society for the Conservation of Butterflies and Moths GfS ("Gesellschaft für ...
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Earliest medieval map of Britain put online
A fifteen-month research project of the earliest surviving geographically recognizable map of Great Britain, known as the Gough Map, provides some revealing insights into one of the most enigmatic cartographic ...
Aug 03, 2011 |
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Measuring the distant universe in 3-D: BOSS proves it can do the job with quasars
The biggest 3-D map of the distant universe ever made, using light from 14,000 quasars – supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies billions of light years away – has been constructed by ...
May 01, 2011 |
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Google's citizen cartographers map out the world
Google on Thursday revealed that an army of citizen cartographers is behind its widely used mapping service, helping the Internet search giant chart the world, including often inaccessible places.
Mar 31, 2011 |
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Chinese perspective offers optimism for the future of oil and gas
The state of the world's oil and gas reserves is one of the great strategic issues facing the modern world. Aside from the debate and controversy surrounding the issue stands one of China's foremost petroleum ...
Mar 11, 2011 |
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Cassini marks holidays with dramatic views of Rhea
(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly released for the holidays, images of Saturn's second largest moon Rhea obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show dramatic views of fractures cutting through craters on the moon's surface, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 21, 2010 |
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New MapQuest site shows US maps for, by the people
(AP) -- MapQuest is diving farther into crowdsourcing, with online maps edited by the people, for the people.
Dec 16, 2010 |
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New online atlas shows how climate change will affect distribution patterns of forests
Researchers from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and CREAF have developed the Suitability Atlas of Woody Plants of the Iberian Peninsula, a series of digital maps available online which for the first time reveal the present ...
Nov 29, 2010 |
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New dinosaur species discovered on 'lost continent' (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two remarkable new species of horned dinosaurs have been found in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah. The giant plant-eaters were inhabitants of the "lost continent" ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 22, 2010 |
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