mapping

In another thread, I mentioned that I’m in marketing for a GIS company and Luciana asked me to open this thread for discussion about it. Luciana’s question started with that GIS can do for her particular city, so I’ll start with a pretty broad response and then narrow from there: Mapping...

Does any know whether or not certain mapping software on the Internet deliberately directs drivers to use certain roads ... e.g.; toll roads? I recently did a Map Quest and Yahoo! driving direction search from my home to an address in southern New Jersey. Basically, it's a straight drive along...

Two groups of astronomers have mapped over 250,000 galaxies, and the results show that the galaxies position is exactly where it would be....if the universe started with a giant explosion - big bang. Martin Reese, Royal Astronomer, Cambridge University: "Experimentalists, using new technology...