This maps exactly, it turns out, to some of the findings of Terri Orbuch, a professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan who leads a continuing study of married couples that dates to the mid-1980s.
All the more striking about this reëmergence is its geography: a map of polio, it turns out, is a map of modern political violence.
Some of the map information, it turned out, was inaccurate, screens were cluttered with unnecessary information, the on-screen type was difficult to read and officers could not easily perform one of the most basic tasks -- the license-plate check.
Like Google Maps, it includes turn-by-turn navigation and traffic data.
Measured statistical properties of real orientation maps include correlation functions [31]: it turns out that the structures of correlation measured in different individuals look very much alike.
It turns out that map was just the beginning.
(The first time was years ago, when I lived in Williamsburg. Looking for a place to go for a run, I found Monsignor McGolrick Park on a map. As it turned out, I had overestimated its size).
But after computerized crime mapping was introduced, it turned out that crime was even more concentrated by place than by person.
The Prairie Fire Inn and Spa (prairiefireinn.com) in Strong City, Kan., was just a red dot on a Google Map when I called; it turned out to be run by Kevin Ireland and Rachel Creager Ireland — formerly the bassist of the Chicago band Frontier and a massage therapist.
They do this by taking raw geo-spatial data and structuring it, turning mapping information into routes with turn-by-turn directions that people can use.
