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Archive for March, 2008

Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a question

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Miss Teen USA 2007 - Ms. South Carolina answers a question

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…

Late breaking news

Friday, March 28th, 2008

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…

Baltimore hosts festival of maps (The World)

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

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.

Late breaking news

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Baltimore hosts Festival of Maps (AP via Yahoo! News)

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

UK spends 150 million a year on maps, atlases and travel guides (Daily Mirror)

We spend 150 million a year on maps, atlases and travel guides, it was revealed yesterday. Biggest spenders are in the south.

S.C. broadband maps show way toward big economic impact (The Times and Democrat)

COLUMBIA — Senator Luke Rankin (Horry County), chairman of the South Carolina Broadband Technology and Communications Study Committee, on Thursday joined committee members and Connected Nation to announce the release of a statewide broadband inventory map that illustrates the extent of broadband service availability throughout the state.

Bosnia police arrest 5 terrorism suspects in raid (International Herald Tribune)

During the raid on the suspects’ homes in Sarajevo and Bugojno, the police seized anti-tank mines, laser sights, maps and manuals describing how to build bombs, officials said Friday.

Curvy Railroad Mystery Solved (Hartford Courant)

Even for many longtime residents, the most distinctive feature on road maps of Bristol is something of a mystery.

Art Association Open Studio & Gallery Tour coming (Kern Valley Sun)

The Kern River Valley Art Association is now selling tour maps and booklets for the third annual Open Studio and Gallery Tour which is to be held on two weekends this year.

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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

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Late breaking news

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Travel Beijing, China - 2008 Summer Olympics - Illustrated Guide, Phrasebook and Maps (All About Symbian)

An illustrated travel guide, phrasebook, and maps. Indulge Yourself with a personal tour guide on Your PDA. FREE general info, map and basic phrasebook in the trial version

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.

Early St. Patrick’s Day easter egg on Google Maps (ZDNet)

Street View in Google Maps now shows a tiny leprechaun instead of the classic yellow guy — it’s a bit early, but you can only assume this has to do with St. Patrick’s Day on Monday. A rainbow follows him when you drag the little guy around the map…

Newly redrawn flood maps for Monmouth County released (Asbury Park Press)

New, highly detailed flood maps for Monmouth County are available on the Internet and at local municipal offices. Federal emergency management officials are urging homeowners to check out the new maps, and buy flood insurance if their homes lie within the newly redrawn flood zones.

Click2Map Adds Template and Database Features to Google Maps (PRWeb)

Click2Map’s powerful online Google Maps editor now offers database and template functionalities. Creating fully customizable interactive professional online maps from existing data is finally possible. (PRWeb Mar 15, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/03/prweb774024.htm

Click2Map Adds Template and Database Features to Google Maps (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Click2Map’s powerful online Google Maps editor now offers database and template functionalities. Creating fully customizable interactive professional online maps from existing data is finally possible.

Discover the world in maps at the Walters (Baltimore Sun)

On Dec. 7, 1972, Cmdr. Eugene Cernan and his crew gazed out the hatch of their moon-bound spacecraft and saw what looked like a dazzling blue marble floating against the blackness of space. “We’re not the first to discover this,” Cernan radioed back to Mission Control, “but we’d like to confirm, from the crew of Apollo 17, that the world is round.”

Etna trustee hopes aerial maps will clear up confusion (Newark Advocate)

ETNA — Etna Township Trustee Jeff Johnson has brought his more than dozen years on the township’s Board of Zoning Appeals to his new post in a move he hopes will better the township’s zoning operations.

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.

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Sunday, March 16th, 2008

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Saturday, March 15th, 2008

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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

Microsoft Maps Out OOXML Developer Tools (InternetNews.com)

Effort continues on the format even as debate continues over whether Office Open XML will become an international standard.

Residents get peek at loop maps (The Lafayette Daily Advertiser)

By June, five mile-wide corridors under consideration as the possible location for a toll loop should be narrowed to a single north and south route, giving property owners a better idea if they may be in the way.

State flood hazard maps get revisions (The Chronicle)

OLYMPIA - Flood hazard maps for Ferry, Okanogan and Douglas counties will be revised within the next three to five years as part of a statewide project to help people decide where it is safe to build in and near flood-prone areas, according to the state Department of Ecology.

Patchwork Nation: Replacing the Red-State Blue-State Maps; The Christian Science Monitor Launches New Election 2008 Site (PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)

BOSTON, March 13, 2008 — As the presidential campaign intensifies, The Christian Science Monitor announces the launch of Patchwork Nation , a new election 2008 site that offers a fresh approach to covering politics.