Wikipedia has a map of world antipodes that you can look at.
Spectators at that opening ceremony held up a colored piece of plastic under their noses to create an image that, from a distance, looked like a map of the world.
In four clicks on an iPad it's possible to change the screen from a view of a world map to a graph of toothpaste prices in India and a sales comparison that shows local brands are gaining share.
On a map of the world using the Brookings index of weak states, the epicentre is self-evidently sub-Saharan Africa, particularly around Congo, with blobs of red in Iraq, Afghanistan and Myanmar.
You and your friends can simultaneously type on it, fingerpaint, play on digital piano keys, call up YouTube videos and Flickr images and zoom in on and rotate a map of the world.
And, that means that we ought to be able draw out a map of that base world which we are all seeing.
It is also one of the two companies assembling a digital map covering most of the world.
The blob had turned into a surprisingly detailed map of the world.
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During a demo at Microsoft's media event Monday, as the speaker watched a scene from HBO's "Game of Thrones, " a map of the show's expansive world popped up.
Yet it is a beautifully detailed map of the Christian world, based on the topography of the Bible bewildering to the geographer, but sensible to people of faith.
There was a picture of a man on the back of the world -- on the back of the map -- on the back of the world.
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The tantalizing paradox is: You better devise a trustworthy and reliable map of the intangible world.
Turkey, of course, appears in the lower right-hand corner of such a map a sort of marginal nation, seemingly at the fringes of what matters in the world.
Turkey, of course, appears in the lower right-hand corner of such a map -- a sort of marginal nation, seemingly at the fringes of what matters in the world.
Much like Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap is a collaborative, crowdsourced and global project of over 650, 000 contributors dedicated to revolutionizing digital maps by creating a free, editable and interactive map of the world using data from satellites, GPS logs, local knowledge, and other sources of geographic information.
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It includes classroom and extra-curricular activities as well as student activity sheets, and provides a series of enlarged photographs of World Heritage sites, a poster, a World Heritage map and stickers to be used for classroom discussions.
The yards and meters labels on the scale of a map of Vatican City, which was contained in a World News graphic on Saturday about the papal conclave, were incorrectly reversed.
Cumulatively, these resulted in the famous projection map of Gerardus Mercator in 1569, a plan of the world that still forms the basis of schoolroom teaching and Google Maps.
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And when you want to tackle the city's culinary breadth, "Toronto as a world map" breaks down the dining and dancing scene of four international neighbourhoods.
The Hollywood hype helped put 23-year-old Bebe, once just another obscure retailer, on the national map--and become a star performer on the FORBES GLOBAL list of the world's 300 best small companies this year.
Because of that, it is once again on the world map in a significantly impartial way.
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The singleplayer needs the most work of all the modes, for the existing world map looks like a crappy alpha.
At one of Gore's main rivals, Associated Air Center in Dallas, the company keeps track of its sales with little flags stuck into a wall-size world map outside its sales office.
For someone who, for most intents and purposes, walked away from the industry that put him on the map, Dolby has managed to do a remarkable job avoiding the trappings of the straight world.
Mayor of Dunedin Dave Cull said that the announcement puts Dunedin on the world map as a first-class literary city.
As I sailed around in the world of Crazy Boat, I found myself keeping my own map, and a series of notes regarding things like the price of goods.
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Until three years ago, Star City, the cosmonaut training centre on the outskirts of Moscow, was that place -- a secret military facility that was unmarked on the world map.
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