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Archive for June, 2008

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Music video by Yeah Yeah Yeahs performing Maps
with David Andrew Sitek [Producer], Yeah Yeah Yeahs [Producer], Patrick Daughters [Video Director], Janice Biggs [Video Producer]
(C) 2003 Interscope Records

Late breaking news

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Port St. Lucie police nab teen break-in suspects with crime maps (Fort Pierce Tribune)

Crime maps of vehicle burglary “hot spots” helped investigators nab two teens Friday morning after the youths admitted breaking in to a host of vehicles, police said.

Spertus closes exhibition on Holy Land maps early (KWQC-TV 6 Davenport)

CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago’s Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies is closing an exhibition on maps of the Holy Land more than two months early after some community members complained it was anti-Israel.

St. Tammany flood maps will be shown (New Orleans Times-Picayune)

Federal officials Wednesday will unveil proposed flood insurance rate maps for St. Tammany Parish during an open house at the William Pitcher Junior High School gymnasium in Covington.

Patrol post lists arrests, maps on Web (The Canton Repository)

JACKSON TWP. The Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Canton Post has developed an online presence. The post’s newly designed Web page has maps, statistics on crashes, drug arrests and stolen vehicles within the state. It also offers information on upcoming events and news items in the area.

Developing Unique Brain Maps To Assist Surgery And Research (Science Daily)

Researchers are developing new technology to create individualized brain maps that will revolutionize diagnosis of disease and enhance the accuracy of brain surgery.

LBS goes wiki was digital maps support user input (telecomasia.net)

The future of digital maps for location-based apps is in the hands of the users literally.

FEMA Rescinds New Flood Maps for D.C. (Insurance Journal)

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has rescinded maps declaring a large swath of downtown Washington and the National Mall a flood zone after city officials pledged to have a stronger levee syste

Late breaking news

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Facebook Group Using Google Maps To Go "Dipping" At Strangers’ Pools (Search Engine Land)

Facebook ‘dipping’ craze irks pool owners from the Telegraph reports that teenagers on Facebook are using Google Maps to locate pools in their neighborhoods and then hold pool parties, as uninvited guests. The new phenomenon is called “dipping,” and has caused concern amongst the Bournemouth, UK region. These ‘dippers’ has been inviting others via Facebook to join these ‘dipping’ …

Some say FEMA’s flood maps are inaccurate (USA Today)

Colorado homeowners are among those who are now paying big money for mandatory flood insurance, despite accusations that some of FEMA’s flood plain maps are inaccurate, the Vail Daily reports. A number of Eagle-Vail properties have been newly-designated as a…

Online maps show crime rates (News 24 South Africa)

Online maps showing crime rates in every area of England and Wales are part of new measures against crime in the UK.

Online maps to show local crime (BBC News)

Online maps with crimes plotted on them are to be brought in “for every area” of England and Wales.

Google Maps Gets Political (TechCrunch)

The Google Maps team has set up a showcase for some of its favorite mashups from the 2008 US presidential election. Four of the mashups - Primary Results, Twitter, Search Queries, and Campaign Trail - were made by Google itself. The Primary Result mashup shows how states and districts across the country voted in the […]

Online maps to show local crime rates (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Online maps showing crime rates in every area of England and Wales were announced by the government on Wednesday as part of a raft of new measures aimed at engaging communities in the fight against crime.

Google Maps - Send to BMW

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Send business addresses from Google Maps to your car via BMW Assist. (english version, wmv)

Late breaking news

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Tourist sites, maps go bilingual in pre-Olympics Beijing (People’s Daily)

After kindergartens, menus and guideposts, the latest things to go bilingual in pre-Olympics Beijing are explanations at tourist sites and maps. The Beijing municipal government launched a campaign on Saturday to erect bilingual sig …

Tourist sites, maps go bilingual in pre-Olympics Beijing (China Daily)

After kindergartens, menus and guideposts, the latest things to go bilingual in pre-Olympics Beijing are explanations at tourist sites and maps.

New St. Louis flood maps proposed (Moldova.org)

A proposed flood map for the St. Louis metropolitan region could mean higher building and insurance costs, experts say.The Federal Emergency Management Agency is revising flood-risk assessments amid concerns about the region’s aging levee system that extends from Alton, Ill., to Columbia, Ill., the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Saturday.The maps will undergo about a year-long review process. …

Preliminary flood-plain maps being issued; insurance rates at stake (Belleville News-Democrat)

New maps that have been in the works for months by federal officials show much of the metro-east along the Mississippi River is being designated a flood-hazard area.

New town maps available (Old Colony Memorial & Plymouth Bulletin)

The Town Clerks office has finished updating the towns map, and new maps with up-to-date roads and streets are available at the Town Clerks office for $5.

Late breaking news

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Preliminary flood-plain maps being issued; insurance rates at stake (Belleville News-Democrat)

New maps that have been in the works for months by federal officials show much of the metro-east along the Mississippi River is being designated a flood-hazard area.

New town maps available (Old Colony Memorial & Plymouth Bulletin)

The Town Clerks office has finished updating the towns map, and new maps with up-to-date roads and streets are available at the Town Clerks office for $5.

Buxton to use Google Maps in online site (Computer Business Review)

The web-based tool provides clients with access to psychographic and demographic data and mapping. Buxton has said that the greatest benefit of Google Maps within SCOUT is the ability to view aerial maps for any site in the US.

New flood maps may change (Enterprise Mountaineer)

Property owners along major waterways have less than three weeks to examine the revised flood plain maps for the county and determine whether their flood classification has changed.

Final MAPS numbers, analysis in (Chillicothe Gazette)

Final numbers are now in from a Multi-Agency Police Saturation (MAPS) last weekend and reveal the serving of 40 arrest warrants, making of 37 felony arrests, and recovery of a stolen vehicle.

Evacuation Maps for Cedar Rapids and Iowa City (KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids)

The evacuation areas are continually changing, we are working to keep these maps as up to date as possible. If you do not see your neighborhood, that does not mean that you do not have an evacuation order.

Late breaking news

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Google street maps now ogle Naples, Fort Myers (Naples Daily News)

Now you can drive down Naples streets without leaving home. Google Maps Street View went live Wednesday for the Naples-Fort Myers area. The street views get an immediate response from users. Some hail this as a hyper-local idea, while others gasp at the invasion of privacy.

Get Started With Yahoo Maps API (Wired News)

Planning a big party, a wedding or an offsite? Using the Yahoo Maps API is an easy way to get your guests to the right place and maybe even on time. Our tutorial will show you how to embed a map in your HTML in three steps.

Residents get 90 days to appeal flood maps (Asbury Park Press)

Monmouth County residents who want to challenge the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s new flood zone maps will have 90 days from today to submit their appeals, federal officials said.

School Board OKs architect for MAPS project (Altus Times)

asst. to editor The Altus Board of Education unanimously voted to appoint the firm of Boynton, Williams and Associates as the architect for the school districts MAPS project during its regular meeting in the board conference room at the administrative center on Tuesday evening.

New digital flood maps taking in Iberia Parish (The Daily Iberian)

Iberia parish property owners are asked to be active participants in the development of new digital flood insurance rate maps.

Preliminary digital flood insurance rate maps to debut in Calcasieu Parish (Southwest Daily News)

LAKE CHARLES , La. - The public is invited to view newly revised Preliminary Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRMS) for Calcasieu Parish at an open house scheduled for Tuesday, June 24, 2008. The open house will be from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., at the Lake Charles Civic Center, 2nd Floor- Contraband Room, 900 Lakeshore Drive , in Lake Charles.

NPS and Outer Banks Visitor Bureau feature Google Maps for current beach access information (Outer Banks Sentinel)

Outer Banks Group Superintendent Mike Murray and Outer Banks Visitor Bureau Managing Director Carolyn McCormick announce a new feature on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore and the Visitor Bureau websites utilizing the popular Google Earth maps.

Google Maps meets ‘Grand Theft Auto’ (CNET)

New horizons in interactive use of Google geographic tools: Drive a little car around Google Maps, or fly an airplane with the Google Earth browser plug-in.

Make Maps With HTTP Using Yahoo’s Geocoder (Wired News)

There are plenty of ways to embed maps into your website — Yahoo’s Geocoder API is the easiest. Mash up some HTML and XML into your website or application and you’ll have the world in your hands. Get started by exploring our step by step guide.

New floodplain maps bring good, bad news (The Norman Transcript)

Norman residents living in or near floodplains will get good news or bad news in the mail in about 10 days.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Music video by Yeah Yeah Yeahs performing Maps
with Nicholas Zinner, Brian Chase, Karen Orzolek
(C) 2003 Interscope Records

While it is possible to represent the immensely complex structures by using matter charts, the

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

While it is possible to represent the immensely complex structures by using matter charts, the basic concepts of the model — matters, associations, and occurrences (CAT) — are easily seized. This article provides a nontechnical introduction to the latter and other concepts (Statistics financial international and GOALS of the matter charts), which connect them to the things which are well-known with all us kingdoms of the management of edition and information, and which try to give a certain idea of the uses to which matter charts will be put in the future.

Knowledge that Lorca was constant in Grenade, that the population of Spain east approximately 39

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Knowledge that Lorca was constant in Grenade, that the population of Spain east approximately 39 million, or that Alhambra was built by mooring rope is not copyrightable. You cannot leave a patent on information that of Falla the breve wrote emptied! Almost can each information to find in a modern and commercial encyclopaedia being found some share on the Internet for free, thus how an editor of work of reference is it to compete with?