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This week the California State Automobile Association announce it would end its production of road maps due to falling demand. The slack will be picked up by the national Association. At the same time police and response organizations are warning the public and their staffs to keep a paper map on hand. What is happening to paper maps as GPS devices become part of our daily lives? Editors Adena Schutzberg and Joe Francica share their thoughts.
He is also involved in a project to map all of Africa, using Microsoft resources as well as contributions from Gates himself and his foundation.
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E-Councilor templateA Windows Live Agent that allows messenger communication with a virtual government worker to ask questions.
Web TV template Allows government and citizen video hosting in Web 2.0 style.
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 templates A set of 40 templates to customize scenarios that address site and system administration needs.
Local government communications template Sample portal with intranet and extranet templates.
Role-based My Site template Designed for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the My Site functionality.
Agenda Management template Allows organizations to streamline processes.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM templates for municipal governments Vertical templates, including reference data models, predefined work flows and role-based user experiences.
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Microsoft's TerraServer-USA satellite imagery project has been slapped with a trademark lawsuit from a small North Carolina company with a confusingly similar name.
Terraserver.com filed the suit on Friday in North Carolina federal court, seeking monetary damages and asking that Microsoft be stopped from using the TerraServer name.
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Another feature of the service presents local news stories based on a user's IP address, so users based in Washington will get a strip of results from Washington newspapers and television stations on one side of the page.
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We recently announced the integration of Multimap into Live Search in the UK and will start to route users directly to the Multimap service from MSN UK and Live.com from 9th May.
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Microsoft is already planning to expand ESPs simulation capabilities, so we might see a host of other affordable simulation products reach market soon. In 2009, the company plans to release ESP 2.0, which will include ground capabilities for missions by trucks, tanks and other vehicles. In 2011, ESP 3.0 is projected to introduce support for maritime scenarios and building interiors.
Another promising avenue being explored is integration with Microsoft Virtual Earth. Virtual Earth has real data, but they dont have the experiential side of it, said McCahill, whose team has already done some work with Virtual Earth and developed demonstrations he described as impressive.
We have done the work to prove it can be done, he said. We are taking the real data and making it very interactive.
McCahill said he hopes integration with Virtual Earth might be possible in the next version, though I dont want to commit to that because it takes two teams.
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SQL Server was set to ship later than Windows Server or Visual Studio, but the target date has now slipped by a full quarter, according to a Jan. 26 blog post by Francois Ajenstat, director of SQL Server product management. Ajenstat insists the delay won't detract from this month's launch event.
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Future versions of the system promise the ability to tap into live online reservation systems, thereby helping users make an informed selection.
ALK said that, unlike many mobile-based GPS systems, CoPilot maps are stored on the device so data transfer is limited and access is faster and more reliable.
The new system will be provided as a free download to all existing CoPilot users in the coming months.
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Bill Thorp’s great idea becomes a Microsoft Research Project. Bill notes:
Their demo makes one thing obvious, however. Douglas-Peucker just doesn’t cut it for topologies. This becomes a non-issue with a pixel-level of detail, but just looks bad in their demo. Their implementation doesn’t seem to preserve existing points between zooms; it’s probably just as efficient this way.
Read about it and then view the demo. When you think about the performance here of the polyline data set with 50,000 segments in it you really start to see why this is impressive. Vish has even more thoughts on the project.
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