Sophisticated satellite mapping has made the task easier by identifying the location and extent of mangrove ecosystems now designated as protected forestland.
GPS technology and online maps have made it easier to retrieve drug caches, meanwhile.
sources: Civil War Trust; Richard F. Miller, "The Battle of Balls Bluff: Would Terrain Maps Have Made a Difference?" from "Torn in Two: 150th Anniversary of the Civil War"; James A. Morgan, "A Little Short of Boats: the Civil War Battles of Ball's Bluff & Edwards Ferry".
The new Congressional map has made her district even more Republican, making her re-election prospects more difficult.
And while it can't quite match Harley-Davidson's 110-year history, Moto Guzzi is very much on the ancestry map, having made motorcycles since 1921.
Many Palestinians said today that they were already close to giving up on Mr. Abbas, commonly known as Abu Mazen, because nothing he had done, including his endorsement of the peace plan, known as the road map, had made their lives any better.
ChicagoCrime.org, a mash-up that lets visitors view crime data by street, date, type and zip code on a map of Chicago, for example, said at the end of June that Google's decision to release an official method for linking to its maps had made the site far more reliable.
The development of molecular markers and linkage maps has made it possible to identify QTL that control cold tolerance in rice (Table 3).
Detailed examination of the various spectral bands of the spectral images found a number of instances where the author of the map had made alterations.
