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  2. Hiker follows Google Maps to steep cliffside and gets ...

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    A hiker followed Google Maps and ended up stranded on a steep and dangerous cliffside in Canada, rescuers say.. He had tried to climb Mount Fromme, one of the North Shore Mountains north of ...

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    Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects : Commons. Free media repository. MediaWiki. Wiki software development. Meta-Wiki. Wikimedia project coordination. Wikibooks. Free textbooks and manuals.

  4. Alphabet Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Alphabet Inc. (also known as Google) is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California.Alphabet is the world's third-largest technology company by revenue and one of the world's most valuable companies.

  5. MapQuest - Wikipedia

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    Optional. Launched. February 6, 1996; 28 years ago. ( 1996-02-06) Current status. Active. MapQuest (stylized as mapquest) is an American free online web mapping service. It was launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. [1] MapQuest vies for market share with competitors such as Google Maps and Here.

  6. Wreck of the Titanic - Wikipedia

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    1 September 1985; 38 years ago. ( 1985-09-01) The wreck of the Titanic lies at a depth of about 12,500 feet (3,800 metres; 2,100 fathoms), about 370 nautical miles (690 kilometres) south-southeast off the coast of Newfoundland. It lies in two main pieces about 2,000 feet (600 m) apart. The bow is still recognisable with many preserved interiors ...

  7. Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen - Wikipedia

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    Google Maps Pin. Rasmussen designed the Google Maps pin while he was employed by Google. The pin is a simple pointer with a bubble top which tapers to a narrow point with a drop shadow. A Google spokesperson told the New York Times that Rasmussen avoided using a star or dot on the map, because they would obscure too much of the map. The Google ...

  8. Comparison of web map services - Wikipedia

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    Google Maps Bing Maps MapQuest Mapy.cz OpenStreetMap Here WeGo Apple Maps Yandex Maps; Degrees of motion Vertical, horizontal, depth, rotation (beta), 360 panoramic (Street View), 3D mode (Google Earth JavaScript) Vertical, horizontal, depth, 360 panoramic (Streetside), 3D mode (tilt, pan, rotate) Vertical, horizontal, depth

  9. Google Map Maker - Wikipedia

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    Google Map Maker. Google Map Maker was a map editing service launched by Google in June 2008. [2] In geographies where it is hard to find providers of good map data, user contributions were used to increase map quality. Changes to Google Map Maker were intended to appear on Google Maps only after sufficient review by Google moderators.