Some of the major challenges include fusing sensor data with mapping, imagery and other real-time display systems, according to the report.
It then combines this real-time information with ephemeris data, mapping, cellular base station and Wi-Fi access point database information, and other cloud-based aiding information using the SiRFusion platform.
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Apple released its own iPhone mapping service last year after using Google mapping data since the phone's inception.
Future plot uses users' mapping data to show them what to expect ahead.
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Behind the scenes Nokia appears to be undertaking a global laser-based mapping exercise designed to give it superior mapping data.
Imagine the value millions driving in cars sending mapping data back to Google and feasting on various Google apps (and therefore search).
It might be better for Apple to hold onto its cash and fix its own internal processes for creating accurate mapping data.
Campaigners have pressed for a wide range of public data, from mapping information to MPs' expenses, to be made available on the web.
Google's fleet of about eight cars uses sophisticated sensors and the company's mapping data to locate the car precisely and plot a route.
But in iOS 6, it decided to ditch Google and create a new app that uses mapping data that Apple itself has assembled.
For example, the U.S. Geological Survey does not have complete groundwater mapping data and, at current funding levels, may not obtain it for decades.
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Both moves upended the consumer navigation industry, which had long relied on the sale of standalone devices and charging for access to mapping data.
After all, Google has been solving the problem of creating accurate mapping data for much longer and Google Maps is a far better service.
The company later extended the facility to much of the rest of the world including the US, France and Australia - countries where it also uses sensor-equipped cars to collect mapping data.
Preliminary mapping data show that Vesta is a world layered in many different rock types and minerals, supporting the notion that it might have become a major planet had it not been trapped in the asteroid belt's powerful gravitational rip tides.
Mapping the data from the 2001 census is an easy matter.
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Google, for example, currently hires drivers to operate cars that collect images and data for its Street View mapping product.
Nearby is almost the same as City Lens in Lumia phones which is exclusive and unique in mapping and location data.
If you begin mapping scads of data into patterns of speech, you discover some surprising similarities among very different kinds of plays.
Much still needs to be improved or invented, Gates reminded his listeners, including better mapping services, data synchronization and directories of friends.
Each of the other Arctic neighbours, however, is busy mapping and preparing the data needed for claims already made public (see map below).
Mr Go reckons that urbanisation could be as low as 25%, based on data from the Global Rural Urban Mapping Project, a global population map.
Mattos has engineered a piece of software, called DB2 Information Integrator, that races through different databases, recognizing data structures on the fly, mapping the entire system and figuring what information needs to move where.
Mr Wheelhouse said government agency Scottish Natural Heritage had been mapping wild land and this data would help a review of planning policy.
Pittman hopes to sell product licenses to companies and institutions that need help mapping their mountains of structured data, such as an Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) database, as well as unstructured data such as e-mail and instant messages.
The team will continue mapping the site, integrating the data from previous two seasons.
Give Web designers in Chicago and Oakland access to public police data, and they create innovative crime-mapping tools that prevent muggings.
Patent-to-product mapping, financial metrics and organizational data are critical to deliver the insight needed to effectively run an IP business unit that increases business value.
Using their extensive data of the lions in the Serengeti and mapping reproductive success over the landscape in which the prides live, the team discovered that the prides which had the highest reproductive success held territories in very specific areas of the national park.
Initial efforts to improve the clarity of subsalt mapping focused on trying to improve the data processing.
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