Maps Online

Tired of getting bad directions? Google Maps, Google’s popular mapping and driving directions tool, is now letting users correct its maps, Wikipedia-style.

Google Maps have some features hidden in them that make them more accessible than you may think. The problem is that you have to find them out by accident or word of mouth.

Prisoners are preparing to buy maps and plans from correctional services officials and warders, the SABC reported on Friday. The maps apparently detail how the department plans to prevent escapes this festive season, including when and where warders will be on duty.

If Google Maps has got a location in the wrong place, users of the popular mapping software can now help Google find its way. From this week, the company is letting Aussies and Kiwis edit mistakes in the web-based application - a feature previously only available to those in the US.

Street wiseGoogle has brought the idea of user-generated content a step further with its plans to allow users to edit Google Maps to make it more accurate.

Street wise Google has brought the idea of user-generated content a step further with its plans to allow users to edit Google Maps to make it more accurate.

In less than a year, online mapping website Google Maps has become the most popular mapping tool in Australia.

If you have the good fortune to have large grounds, for example, the little marker on the map might point to the start of your driveway. Or it might be in the middle of the neighbour’s garden.

One by one governmental leaders signed to receive their copies of FEMA’s new flood maps. “The final product of all the study that has been going on over the past two years,” Planning Director Michele Coats said.

GAUTIER — The final flood plain maps are complete and closely resemble the standards Jackson County residents have been using since shortly after Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi Emergency Management Agency officials said Friday.

So what can property owners do if they are included in the flood zone of the new maps which will likely go into effect in early 2009? At this point in time, property owners should get in touch with their local government and find out first if they are included.

A system of flood gates and pumps built since Hurricane Katrina to help alleviate flooding in several New Orleans neighborhoods may not be as much help as authorities first said. The Army Corps of Engineers released flood risk maps on a block-by-block basis on June 20, but didn’t include some technical data, preventing independent assessments of the accuracy of the maps. The maps showed that the …

Army Corps of Engineers maps rolled out this summer that showed levee and pump work had made many neighborhoods much safer were in fact flawed and the risk from flooding is actually much higher than first presented to the public, a top scientist acknowledged Friday.

Rechtzeitig zur Skisaison und ein halbes Jahr vor der Fuball-EM haben die Alpenlnder Schweiz und sterreich bei Google Maps aufgerstet.

SCHOOLS in the Capital have been urged to apply for their free Ordnance Survey maps before the deadline.

HOUMA — Whether Terrebonne will continue to follow advisory flood elevations from FEMA is still up in the air, after the Terrebonne Parish Council unanimously voted Wednesday to keep discussions open about repealing the elevation maps.

Zrich (pts/15.11.2007/13:45) - Die Branchen-Suche von Google-Maps http://maps.google.ch , das neue Orientierungstool der weltweit grten Suchmaschine, ist seit gestern, Mittwoch, auch in der ganzen Schweiz verfgbar.

Im neuen Video zu “New Dark Ages” von Bad Religion besinnen sich Greg Graffin und die Seinen auf alte Qualitten und machen damit nichts falsch. Punkrock und Sozialkritik. Klingt nach old school. Ist es auch. Der Song “New Dark Ages” kommt von der knackigen aktuellen Bad Religion-LP “New Maps Of Hell” und bietet genau das, was die Band schon immer am besten konnte: Sie zeigt uns, wie man …

Maps for the “green” home and garden tour sponsored by the Princeton Environmental Commission on Saturday Nov. 17 can be picked at sign-up, this weekend at convenient Princeton locations, including Whole Earth.

Google Maps now integrates ratings from CleanScores , a website which shows you which establishments have failed food inspections. Now, when you search for a place to eat, if CleanScores has it in their database (which for now only includes San Francisco and LA), the Google Maps results will show you the violations the food inspectors discovered in that place. From experience, I …

Las Cruces study Finds Significant Errors in FEMAs Flood Maps

FORT SMITH–You might not think of maps as terribly important…until you get lost. Then, trying to read one can be a challenge. But Wednesday is worldwide GIS day, which stands for geographic information systems.

Associated Press - November 14, 2007 11:25 AM ET LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s draft flood plain maps for Las Cruces contain significant errors.

Google Maps now integrates ratings from CleanScores , a website which shows you which establishments have failed food inspections. Now, when you search for a place to eat, if CleanScores has it in their database (which for now only includes San Francisco and LA), the Google Maps results will show you the violations the food inspectors discovered in that place. From experience, I …

Associated Press - November 14, 2007 11:25 AM ET LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s draft flood plain maps for Las Cruces contain significant errors.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - The Federal Emergency Management Agencys draft flood plain maps for Las Cruces contain significant errors. Officials say those errors could force some homeowners to pay more in insurance.

Interest in providers of digital maps is growing as car-navigation, mobile-phone and Internet companies wake up to the potential of the market for so-called location-based services.

Preliminary flood insurance rate maps are being released from FEMA. Nothing is final yet, but right now in the Hub City there is a hold on permits in areas the new maps identify as floodways.

The Lafourche Parish Council voted 7-2 in favor of retaining FEMA advisory floodplain maps, despite a recent attorney general opinion stating the council illegally instituted the grids eight months ago.

LAS CRUCES - Old data, drainage infrastructure that’s unaccounted for and high estimates for rainfall totals could negatively impact Federal Emergency Management Agency flood plain maps for Las Cruces.

Maps for the “green” home and garden tour sponsored by the Princeton Environmental Commission on Saturday Nov. 17 can be picked at sign-up, this weekend at convenient Princeton locations, including Whole Earth.

MADRID: A number of precious maps stolen from Spain’s National Library have been returned after police tracked them to three continents including Australia.

SmartDraw.com today announced the release of SmartDraw 2008.1, an updated version of its latest software. The new release now features more than 35,000 maps from around the world, as well as revamped image charts .