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.
In our hands-on demo, we stared at a world map, and then used the scroll wheel on a mouse to zoom in on that particular country.
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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.
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 site contains a colourful world map that changes according the criteria chosen, and users can even compare one country to another based on what is most important to them.
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.
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.
They will miss discovering that the world on a map is nothing if not an invitation to dream.
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Wikipedia has a map of world antipodes that you can look at.
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.
It's whether we sustain the leadership that has made America not just a place on a map, but the light to the world.
Because of that, it is once again on the world map in a significantly impartial way.
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Mayor of Dunedin Dave Cull said that the announcement puts Dunedin on the world map as a first-class literary city.
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.
The singleplayer needs the most work of all the modes, for the existing world map looks like a crappy alpha.
And, that means that we ought to be able draw out a map of that base world which we are all seeing.
The blob had turned into a surprisingly detailed map of the world.
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In 2008, Cameroon was among the first African countries to contribute to the OneGeology initiative, which aims to make a single trans-national geological world map accessible online.
New World Bank President Jim Kim spoke about involving the private sector in building energy infrastructure in the developing world, and announced a World Bank program to help companies map and identify opportunities for energy investments.
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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.
Jobs just stood aside with a smile as he filled up a giant map, letting the tune "It's a Small World" play as, one by one, his plan for world domination unfolded.
It is also one of the two companies assembling a digital map covering most of the world.
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.
The tantalizing paradox is: You better devise a trustworthy and reliable map of the intangible world.
She also highlighted the work UNESCO is undertaking to establish a road map to democracy in the Arab world.
Two hundred years ago, New Bedford put itself on the world map with its investment in a whaling fleet.
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The system has provided a single consistent map set for the entire world and made it easily accessible via computer or phone.
In fact, we're surprised to hear nobody has done this yet, but Toyota is claiming its new Map on Demand service is a world first, and who are we to argue?
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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