With the latest beta release of Ovi Maps, available for download today, people will benefit from new features and even greater map detail.

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Due to the large volume of data and detail in a traditional map pack, updates are usually done about twice a year, meaning high-construction areas can become terribly inaccurate before your maps company gives you a fresh edition.

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Mars Express will map the Red Planet in unprecedented detail - its best images will see objects down to two metres.

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The information is shown as location trails on a computer screen map, down to a level of detail which shows on which side of the street and in which direction a person is moving.

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For example, Dr Jiao and his colleagues want to map the abundance, composition and distribution of refractory molecules in more detail.

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Scientists used data from Planck to create an artificially colored map of temperature variations across the sky in the early universe, in more detail than ever before.

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By cataloging and summarizing the missing granular detail of the Holocaust, this effort of retrieval has put the hitherto buried and dispersed material on the map and brought it into our consciousness.

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