But for now they see little or no financial return from their current smartphone map apps beyond the value added to their brands.
But it's a measure of both how much worse things have been in the past, and how desperate Somalis are for progress, that most people I've spoken to here are inclined to invest real hope in the current "road map", even if it is an obviously flawed process at the mercy of the usual currents of clan rivalry and regional divisions.
The aim of all this is to separate resisters from committed insurgents to turn the current gold-yellow map back to the lighter hues of 2005.
In this way, it is possible to check the current charge status of the lithium-ion battery or to verify the vehicle's current range on a map.
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Next to each address book entry is an icon that when selected will cause the unit to draw a map from your current location to the address given in the address book.
Measures within the route map included keeping "current nuclear power stations running long past their sell-by date, which is not a very sensible thing to have to do".
When watching Game of Thrones you'll get a map showing you where the current scene takes place, along with a browsable family tree.
The current crisis invites us to move the center of the map over Turkey.
Some estimates suggest that if current technology were used, it would take years to map the roughly 10, 000 synapses that branch from just a single neuron.
Once a navigation is under way, the map is topped by a large green bar showing the current step in the directions.
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So for history and geography, six to seven-year-olds should know the name of the current president and be able to find Washington DC and Boston on a map.
But for the current senator, much of this apparently seems dubious, at least as a road map to the future.
For that reason, BV Solutions Group has advised its customers to begin putting together a road map for deploying Windows 2000, noting that it will offer significant improvements over current Windows offerings.
Children of the current generation will be poorer for it if they never get to linger over a vast paper map and then try in vain to fold it back into its original shape.
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Most mobile robots do this using a technique called SLAM (simultaneous localisation and mapping), whereby they build up a map of their unknown environment, using various sensors, whilst keeping track of their current position at the same time.
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