He boards things concerning Design and Cartography, and has a cool board that features his followers and pictures of their cars.

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You'll have to install a browser plugin to get your hit of pop-up cartography, but Google Earth addicts should be suitably impressed.

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As they planned, another colleague suggested using their trip as an opportunity to collaborate with the Google Maps team, and their modern-day cartography mission was born.

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" A simple example is "an officer in a military office of cartography, who must have unfalsified maps at his disposal in order to falsify the maps.

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The plan also includes innovative tactics and cutting-edge tools, like geographic information-system maps that combine cartography and database technology to help locate children who have not been reached by vaccinators.

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She said the roll-out had been prepared after taking into account local demographics and the cartography of Wales, together with the Welsh government's economic priorities including enterprise zones and Powys local growth zones.

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Crowd-sourced cartography is getting hot, too: in late May the company Telenav, which supplies maps to carmakers, said it would switch to OpenStreetMap, a collaborative project to create a free editable world map, from its previous suppliers, which had included Nokia and TomTom.

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