Texas senate passes election maps requested by Gov. Rick Perry
AUSTIN — Along party lines, the Texas Senate on Friday passed the election maps Gov. Rick Perry asked for when he convened the special legislative session that will end June 25. The vote appears to...
View ArticleStunning maps show world’s most dangerous weather hot spots
Click map to enlarge (John Nelson/IDV Solutions) A series of stunning heat maps—created by a man who’s probably a little better with Excel than you are—shows the places in America most prone to natural...
View ArticleHouse likely to vote Thursday on new maps
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Contentious political maps are poised to reach the full House Thursday, and they could give the Texas governor and attorney general the unchanged maps they hope for. The chairman of...
View ArticleNew maps reduce high-risk areas at Shore
Updated preliminary flood maps issued Monday by the Federal Emergency Management Agency drastically reduce the area included in high-risk flood zones in three New Jersey Shore counties and one...
View ArticleHouse passes redistricting maps
The Texas House preliminarily passed out a set of three redistricting maps after several hours of debate Thursday. Most of the time was spend on the state House plan, and a few tweaks were made to the...
View ArticleRecords: Redistricting maps went to GOP before public
TALLAHASSEE — New records in a court fight over Florida’s re-drawn congressional and legislative maps show an aide to former House Speaker Dean Cannon released congressional maps to a Republican...
View ArticleMaps & Plans: Build, Then Follow
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View ArticleThe Bizarro Landscapes Created By Apple’s iOS Maps
When it was launched last fall, Apple’s iOS Maps quickly became the butt of many Internet jokes. Full of bugs, glitches, and an uncanny handling of geography, the app failed in spectacular fashion,...
View ArticleNOAA maps our lush, green Earth (pictures)
New imagery collected by the VIIRS sensor aboard the Suomi NPP satellite maps the subtle differences in Earth’s greenness, from the lushest vegetation to vast, dry deserts.
View ArticlePlacing Literature maps book scenes in the real world
Go behind the scenes of a new site based in Google Maps that combines geography, technology, and literature into a crowdsourced map of real locations from novels. [Read more]
View ArticleThese Maps Prove Americans Speak Totally Different Versions Of The English...
American English dialects and pronunciation have been a point of interest from coast to coast among linguists for years. The idea first appeared in mainstream culture in 1937, when George and Ira...
View ArticleGoogle Street View Maps First Skyscraper, Dubai’s Burj-Khalifa
For years, the Google Street View team has captured the world’s most interesting places and put the 360-degree imagery on Google Maps for the world to experience virtually. This has made touring the...
View ArticleConservatism works when dealing with flood maps
You could almost hear the collective sigh of relief coming from Shore communities and property owners over the weekend with the release of the new “working flood maps,” which scaled back the worst...
View ArticleMaps: see how poverty has spread to the suburbs in Michigan
In the past three decades, poverty has spread to the suburbs across the US and in Michigan. And a new map shows what that shift looks like. The Urban Institute has mapped Census data on poverty in...
View ArticleGoogle Maps for mobile gets new look, new navigation tools
4 hours ago A new version of Google’s Maps app is hitting Android devices around the world, bringing with it an updated interface and a few handy new features. Tablet users in particular should...
View ArticleGoogle Overhauls Maps on Mobiles, Moves Some Features to Google+
The first-class Maps app from Google has gotten better. Too bad you need Google+ to enjoy all the new features. Google announced today that an updated Maps app would be rolling out to Android...
View ArticleMaps is navigating toward Google Now
On Tuesday night, Google released an update to Google Maps on Android , featuring a redesigned interface that more closely incorporates a cleaner, card-based look, and a reduction in onscreen menu...
View ArticleHow to access My Maps on Android after Google Maps update
The new Google Maps for Android. (Credit: Screenshot by Nicole Cozma/CNET) Related stories Five tips for the new Google Maps on Android New Google Maps for Android moves in on Yelp, Foursquare Google...
View ArticleGoogle scrambles to restore offline Google Maps storage
It’s handy to cache maps when you know you’ll be headed into an area with bad network coverage. Google has tweaked its new Google Maps for Android app to make the feature easier to use. Originally...
View ArticleGoogle Overhauls Android Maps App
Google has given its Android Maps application a makeover, revising its interface and adding some exploring and navigation features in the latest update that was first previewed at its I/O developers...
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