The fight is over an electronic map - like the one that brought me here, but much more sophisticated.

NPR: Security Officials Seek to Block Some Online Maps

Not just a regular handset, but one that could fold out into an electronic map or fit around the wrist like a watch, losing none of its functionality along the way.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The Q, N, E, F, and L lines, as well as most of the trains on the J and Z lines, already have models with electronic map displays, bright blue seats and frosty air conditioning.

WSJ: MTA Moving to Phase Out the C Line's Clunkers

Even today in the world of satellite based GPS and the fairly exact positioning information it can provide, it is always best to have a paper chart or map and the needed tools in case your electronic ones fail so you are not left stranded and unable to find your way home.

FORBES: DEDuced Reckoning is Assembling the Mosaic!

This is why most improvements in bizjets during the last 40 years have come from outside the industry--electronic engine controls, global-positioning satellites, moving-map displays, downloadable real-time weather, etc.

FORBES: Cheap Jet Update

But according to the new U.S. account, a serviceman talking to the border-control center, attempting to make the coordinates more specific for the Pakistanis by pairing them with a map of the political border, applied an incorrect electronic overlay on his computer.

WSJ: U.S. Erred in Deadly Attack

Pattern analysis the heart of data mining is conventional crime-solving, whether the suspicious patterns are spotted on a crime pin map, on a city street, or in an electronic database.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Balancing security and privacy during wartime

Pattern analysis -- the heart of data mining -- is conventional crime-solving, whether the suspicious patterns are spotted on a crime pin map, on a city street, or in an electronic database.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Balancing security and privacy during wartime