Sentence examples for mapping data in from inspiring English sources
Apple has been widely criticised for the poor quality of the mapping data in the new iOS6 software powering the iPhone 5, and which has been made available for existing iPhones back to 2009's iPhone 3GS.
Yet while parts of South Yorkshire still suffer from June's floods, the Environment Agency has moved to stop an outside site offering its flood mapping data in a more usable form.
Mapping Data in Science Have students plot data about a topic they are studying or researching on a map to show, as these Times examples do, anything from bird migrations to the path of tornadoes to hypothetical disease outbreaks.
When Nokia first began compiling digital mapping data in 1997, Russia had a law that prevented unauthorized mapmaking at a level of detail greater than 30 meters, or 100 feet, but it no longer enforces this restriction.
Nokia's decision to turn it into a giveaway may complicate its own efforts to generate revenue from mobile services and to recoup the $8.1 billion it spent in October 2007 to buy NavTeq, a maker of digital mapping data in Chicago.
Google is also launching its Map Maker tool for crowdsourcing mapping data in Russia, Taiwan and Malaysia today.
"The largest consumers of map data in the future will be mobile".
The software also stores your directions and local map data in case you lose your network connection midtrip.
(Remember a campaign for free map data in the UK?) Possibly that has helped; and the fact that Canada doesn't have the same regime may have made it harder there.
Yahoo! opened up its map data in a similar way in June, and in July Microsoft unveiled a pre-release version of its mapping site, MSN Virtual Earth.
"One of the biggest requests we received for map data in Belarus was from Russia," said Andreas Herger, a senior manager for location content at HERE, which is based in Berlin and oversees Nokia's location-based services and mapping business.
