If FEMA changes flood maps, some Treasure Coast homeowners might have to buy flood insurance (TCPalm.com)
A national project to redraw local flood maps could force some people to buy costly insurance policies and allow others to opt out of them.
A World Of Useful Maps Awaits On The Internet (The Tampa Tribune)
The measure of how important maps are to historians and genealogists becomes apparent when you explore the many paper-map collections available in libraries and digital collections online.
Flood maps will get 2nd look - roanoke.com (Roanoke Times)
Bedford County officials and residents question adding land to federal flood plain maps. Recently revised federal flood plain maps — which may cause hundreds of Bedford County residents to purchase expensive flood insurance — have led county officials and some residents to seek second opinions.
Google wants to bring Street View maps to UK, raises privacy concerns (Tech Digest via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Google would like to bring Street View maps to the UK, according to an enthusiastic spokesperson at the company, but their keenness has been overshadowed by privacy concerns.
Public to get say on flood risk maps (The Telegraph)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of two parts updating the status of the FEMA flood risk map issue for the Metro East.
Google Trialling Voice Search For Mobile Maps (Mobile Burn)
News by Ricky Cadden on Friday July 04, 2008. Note: Sponsored advertising links, if any, are in green. Google has recently launched a new version of its Google Maps Mobile client for the RIM BlackBerry Pearl, with a new experimental feature.
Google Maps Survey: You Can Earn $100 By Participating (Search Engine Roundtable)
Do you reside in the US or Canada? Do you want to improve Google Maps? Google is looking for volunteers for a study which would involve you either going to Google’s offices (if you’re able), performing a study online, having a Google rep visit you, or by filling out an online survey. The actual study itself isn’t exactly explained, but if you’re interested, the URL to register and be considered …
Google Creates Tour De France Video Maps (Slashdot)
An anonymous reader writes “In honor of the Tour de France’s start today, Google has used its awesome Street View technology to compile amazing Tour de France route views. A great description of the technology that went into creating this can be found in this LinuxDevices article. At least, I’m assuming these are the cameras Google acknowledged using Elphel cameras for book scanning and …
Taiwan market: Garmin sells digital navigation maps of China (Digi Times)
Garmin has offered digital navigation map data covering 1,840 cities of varying sizes in China for sale in the Taiwan market at NT$3,000-4,000 (US$99-131) and the company claims that Garmin is so far the only one licensed by the Chinese government for selling China maps in markets outside China, according to product marketing director Michael Hsu for Garmin Corporation (a subsidiary of US-based …
MAPS program grows into business (Ravalli Republic)
CORVALLIS - Usually, when an academic institution starts to spin off a business, the institution is a college or university. But recently, in Ravalli County, it was Media Arts in the Public Schools (MAPS), which was created initially at Corvallis High School.