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40 Maps That Explain The Middle East
“Here are 40 maps crucial for understanding the Middle East — its history, its present, and some of the most important stories in the region today.” via 40 Maps That Explain The Middle East.
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The First Google Maps War
via opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com “Did Google Maps almost cause a war in 2010? On Nov. 3 of that year, Ed??n Pastora, the Nicaraguan official tasked with dredging the Rio San Juan, justified his country???s incursion into neighboring Costa Rica???s ter…
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Coding with data from our Transparency Report
By Matt Braithwaite, Transparency Engineering Tech Lead More than a year ago, we launched our Transparency Report, which is a site that shows the availability of Google services around the world and lists the number of requests we’ve received from governments to either hand over data or to remove content. We wanted to provide a […]
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Coding with data from our Transparency Report
By Matt Braithwaite, Transparency Engineering Tech Lead More than a year ago, we launched our Transparency Report, which is a site that shows the availability of Google services around the world and lists the number of requests we’ve received from governments to either hand over data or to remove content. We wanted to provide a […]
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Google Earth downloaded more than one billion times
(Cross-posted from the Lat Long Blog) How large is one billion? One billion hours ago modern humans were living in the Stone Age. One billion minutes ago, the Roman Empire was flourishing. If you traveled from Earth to the Moon three times, your journey would measure one billion meters. Today, we’ve reached our own one […]
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Google Earth downloaded more than one billion times
(Cross-posted from the Lat Long Blog) How large is one billion? One billion hours ago modern humans were living in the Stone Age. One billion minutes ago, the Roman Empire was flourishing. If you traveled from Earth to the Moon three times, your journey would measure one billion meters. Today, we’ve reached our own one […]
