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Archive for August, 2008

Late breaking news

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Fighter planes at MAPS museum (Akron Beacon Journal)

GREEN: A P-51C Mustang fighter will be the star of this weekend’s Collings Foundation Wings of Freedom display of historic military aircraft at the MAPS Air Museum at the west side of the Akron-Canton Airport.

Google Denies Stripping Data from Maps of Georgia (GigaLaw.com)

Several reports suggest that data from Georgia and the neighboring countries of Armenia and Azerbaijan has been stripped from Google Maps. Google says that’s not so.

Online maps of Georgia handy for guerrilla warfare [Your Privacy Is An Illusion] (Valleywag)

Google Maps can’t always remember where in the world war-torn Georgia is, but the Googlers behind it did not in fact hide road maps of the country they were never there to begin with,… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Homeowners must eye new flood maps closely (The Daily Comet)

HOUMA — Upcoming open-house meetings will give residents a chance to learn how new federal flood-insurance maps will affect them and ask questions of officials involved.

U.S. Buffalo River facility to halt selling of maps, books (The Springfield News-Leader)

Maps, books, postcards and other items such as annual passes to National Park Service facilities no longer are being sold at the Buffalo National River headquarters in Harrison, Ark., according to national river officials.

‘Pak woman held for Qaeda links had maps of potential targets’ (Chennai Online)

New York, Aug 13 A Pakistani woman neuroscientist, being held in the US for alleged links to Al-Qaeda, had in her possession maps of potential targets including the Statue of Liberty, Time Square, the subway system and New York city at the time of arrest, a media report said today.

Google Maps and Georgia (About.com)

Astute observers of Google Maps noticed that the country of Georgia lacked any geographic data - it showed no roads, no topography, and no cities. Some thought that the…

FEMA maps limit flood zones to lower Terrebonne (The Houma Courier)

HOUMA - New federal flood maps, released late last week, don’t contain the bad news that many local officials had feared.Previous study maps, released five months ago, put all of Terrebonne and much of Lafourche in a flood zone.The new maps, which officials are still studying, limit major flood zones to south

New flood maps available in Springdale (Community Press & Recorder)

SPRINGDALE - The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s new preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps for the city of Springdale are now available for review.

City adopts more precise flood maps; measure could improve flood rating (The Norman Transcript)

Norman city councilmembers approved by a 7-0 vote the 10th revision to the City’s floodplain ordinance in the ordinance’s 33-year history at Tuesday night’s meeting.The ordinance was revised to accept recently reexamined flood zones from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, along with the new Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map or DFIRM.

Late breaking news

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Family claims Google Maps invaded its privacy (WAFB Baton Rouge)

A Gonzales family says Google’s street-level maps showed a picture of their daughter standing in the driveway. The family was able to navigate through the site to find a way to remove the image.

Biz blog: Upgrade for Google Maps (York Daily Record)

Anyone else notice Google Maps got a little bit of a new look recently? It’s nothing drastic, just a few simple changes.

LAPD Switches to Google Maps & Other New Features (LAist)

All the reported crime on August 7, 2008 within a 5-mile radius from 200 N. Fremont Street LAPD’s interactive crime maps have been helpful since they launched a couple years ago. Today, they relaunched the tool, now using Google Maps instead of the old city map they were using. The new maps also let you double click on an area to browse crime in neighborhoods and also toggle between …

Google Maps Users Cannot View Maps Created by Others (Search Engine Roundtable)

In a Google Groups thread, users are reporting that they are not able to share or view maps that are created by others. This error has been reported since July 29th and a number of users are impacted (but others are not). After heated discussions on the thread and 56 messages with a number of members trying to illustrate the problem, Maps Guide Mike says that this is a bug that was indeed …

Joplin City Council votes to assume control over jail, MAPS operations (The Joplin Globe)

Joplin will take over operations of the city jail and a transportation service instead of contracting the services to outside vendors, the City Council decided Monday night.

Prof compiles battle maps of Little Bighorn (Helena Independent Record)

BILLINGS (AP) A Texas art professor whos spent 19 summers as a ranger at Little Bighorn Battlefield has produced a book featuring maps drawn by people in the 1876 battle between Northern Plains Indians and the U.S. Army.

This could include properties such as the “language”, “safety”, the “applicability”, the “niveau of

Monday, August 11th, 2008

This could include properties such as the “language”, “safety”, the “applicability”, the “niveau of the user”, the “online/offline”, etc… Once that such properties were assigned, they can be employed to create filters of question producing the limited subsets of resources, for example such whose language is “Italian” and the level of the user is “student of secondary school”. It is important not to confuse facets with the range (about which more in the next section).

Late breaking news

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Virginia Maps Always Seem To Interest Me (Bristol Herald Courier)

I have always liked maps. No, lets say that Im really obsessed with maps, especially in studying detailed maps and then trying to figure out how one place looked years ago in comparison to how it looks today. I am especially intrigued by John Smiths work in the 1600s. For one, Smith flipped over the shape of Virginia and looked at all the coastal inlets sideways from the angle of the mouth …

MDEQ Unveils Flood Zone Maps (WAPT Jackson)

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has released new flood maps for Hinds County.

Iowas flood maps are old or nonexistent, officials acknowledge (The Des Moines Register)

Only 52 of Iowas 99 counties have complete flood plain maps that meet federal standards and many of those havent been updated in more than 20 years, state officials acknowledged this morning.

StreamGraph Maps Twitter Word by Word (Wired News)

Micro-blogging service Twitter captures the imagination of data-visualization mashup creators, with new eye candy showing up as regularly as Tweets about cats and ice cream. The latest is StreamGraph, which visually maps the latest 200 Tweets containing a given word.

What would MAPS do for AHS? (Altus Times)

The 1930 Altus High School building is scheduled for renovation and the addition of classrooms with voters passage of the August 26 MAPS proposal to extend the one-cent city sales tax for 12 years and add a three-quarter cent sales tax.

Biz blog: Upgrade for Google Maps (York Daily Record)

Anyone else notice Google Maps got a little bit of a new look recently? It’s nothing drastic, just a few simple changes.