8 hours ago by Tom Snow

As a modern day hobby, geocaching is referred to as treasure hunting in the digital age. Some describe the out of doors sporting pursuit as current-day orienteering via Global Positioning Systems or GPS. For at least 10 years now, up to 1.5 reported geocaches, and close to 5 million geocachers aroun ...

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8 hours ago by Tom Snow

Many of us think of the treasure hunt as a foregone enterprise that went out of style at the end of the gold rush time of western Canada and the United States, but those with the time, need and persistency, discovery of rare metals is still a particularly feasible pursuit in this day and age. In rea ...

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12 hours ago by Tom Snow

Many folks think of the treasure hunt as a foregone endeavor that went out of favor at the end of the gold rush era of western Canada and the US, but those with the time, desire and perseverance, locating finds of valuable metals is still a very reasonable pursuit in this modern age. In fact, modern ...

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3 days ago by Tom Snow

Hiking and camping are good methods for city people to get out and reconnect with nature. What starts as a relaxing getaway, however, stops being fun extremely fast when campers and hikers get lost, which is the reason why it’s important to be prepared. A foray into the out-of-doors is always much b ...

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5 days ago by Tim Worstall

This is very amusing indeed, well, amusing for econ geeks at least. That it should happen in France of all places [1]: A French commercial court has found Google guilty of abusing the dominant position of its Google Maps application and ordered it to pay a fine and damages to a French mapping compan ...

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5 days ago by Tim Worstall

This is very amusing indeed, well, amusing for econ geeks at least. That it should happen in France of all places [1]: A French commercial court has found Google guilty of abusing the dominant position of its Google Maps application and ordered it to pay a fine and damages to a French mapping compan ...

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7 days ago by Tom Snow

Any supervisor, human resources director or company executive knows that that the right way to bring staff together and promote friendship and teamwork is to plan an event outside the office. It can be difficult, though, to plan an event that achieves these goals while being both remarkable and fun. ...

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8 days ago by Marco So

Google Maps 大概已經成為大家生活的一部份吧，它資料充足，還提供路線服務，更重要的是免費。不過大家又有沒有想過他們提供免費地圖服務反而會被罰呢？法國新聞社報導，巴黎的一間商業法庭剛剛裁定當地 Google 需向一間名為 Bottin Cartographes 的地圖公司賠償五十萬歐元，另外要向法院繳交一萬五千歐元的罰款，理由是他們「提供免費地圖」。 原訴人 Bottin Cartographes 入稟的理由是 Google 提供免費地圖，削弱了自家地圖的市佔率；他們的代表指出「我們已經證明了 Google 策略的非法性」，Google「破壞並扼殺了我們賣出地圖服務的機會」；又稱事件為 ...

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9 days ago by Andrew Munchbach

A Parisian commercial court has upheld a lower court's ruling against Google France, ordering the company to pay a fine of €500,000 for giving away its maps services. The plaintiff, Bottin Cartographes, claims that Google leveraged the market share of its Maps platform -- and the fact that it's free ...

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10 days ago by Flipflops

Recently I’ve been updating a site with some quite complex map related functionality from Google maps v2 to Google maps v3. All in all it has been straight forward and worth doing. The one disappointment IMO has been Streetview – the old version was so much slicker. The new version is easier to impl ...

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