Maps can be more useful than globes in many situations: they are more compact and easier to store ; they readily accommodate an enormous range of scales ; they are viewed easily on computer displays ; they can facilitate measuring properties of the terrain being mapped ; they can show larger portions of the Earth's surface at once ; and they are cheaper to produce and transport.

Maps can also be viewed online.

Carrollton's growth can be documented through Sanborn Maps, several of which are available online.

The first few decades of the town's growth can be documented through Sanborn Maps, which recorded building ownership, materials, and use.

Using Google Maps, you can still see the dis-used airfield.

Growth of the town can be studied through historic Sanborn Maps, which document building types and uses in the city during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Many implementations provide a syntax by which this can be achieved ( kind of like ' SQL for Topic Maps ') but the syntax tends to vary a lot between different implementations.

More information about such standards can be found at the ISO Topic Maps site.

Maps ' design can significantly impact the gameplay.

Maps of land cover and land use from thematic mapping can be used to prospect for minerals, detect or monitor land usage, deforestation, and examine the health of indigenous plants and crops, including entire farming regions or forests.

Like many of Card's works, the novel is an expansion of a short story, his " Lost Boys ", which can be found in his short story compilation Maps in a Mirror.

Processed data can be viewed at the teamsurv. eu web site, overlaid on top of Google Maps.

The use of personal experience and ancestral memory can be found in Brand's writing strategies such as in a short story fiction, " St. Mary Estate ", which is taken from Brand's book, Sans Souci and Other Stories, pp. 360 – 366, Brand begins the chapter " Maps of Memory: Places Revisited " by describing the colonial oppression that her fictional characters experienced in a place called " St. Mary Estate.

One can think of geographical features as the " source code " behind a map, whereas the WMS interface or online mapping portals like Google Maps return only an image, which end-users cannot edit or spatially analyze.

Maps using isotherms show temperature gradients, which can help locate weather fronts.

Maps filled with dense station-model plots can be difficult to read, but they allow meteorologists, pilots, and mariners to see important weather patterns.

Maps can be exported as JPEG from the Java viewer.

Maps can differ from a lush area like this to a rough desert landscape.

Maps can include teleporters / monsters / items etc.

Maps showing the component units of the constituency can be seen here.

Maps created in this mode can be saved on the game cartridge and can be played in multiplayer modes or sent and received to other game cartridges using multiple consoles with a Game Boy Advance Game Link Cable.

1990 saw the release of Smooth Noodle Maps, which would be Devo's last album for twenty years.

* Maps tend to be drawn for viewing with either true north or magnetic north at the top

The fate of specific buildings may also be traced by Sanborn Maps that were produced of the town during this period.

This data may be disseminated in a wide variety of formats, including hard-copy topographic maps as well as digital formats such as Geographical Information Systems and Google Maps.

Maps may also start with neutral towns, which do not send out heroes but may still be captured by any player.

Google Maps contains several Easter eggs whereby a user asking for directions from Japan to China, from New York to Tokyo, or from Taiwan to China would be directed to either jetski, kayak, or swim across the Pacific Ocean.

Maps need not be defined on all of X, and in particular they don't need to have the same domain.

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* Amtrak Status Maps – maps that show the current location of Amtrak trains

The website of the 66th Military Intelligence Brigade claims they moved out in 2008, but Google Maps and Bing satellite imagery still show a respectively full and quarter-full parking lot.

Maps from 1944 show little development north of Inya Lake and areas that are now layered in cement and stacked with houses were then virtual backwaters.

Maps of the area show the familiar names of Studarus, Williamson, Mendonca, Kelley, Carroll, Shields, Dauenhauer, Lauridson, Kilgore, and Deterding.

Maps as early as 1872 show the area as open space.

Maps from the 1830s show the scarp labelled " General Darlings Range "; this later became Darling Range, a name by which the formation was still commonly known in the late 20th century, despite common understanding of it being an escarpment.

Maps published between 1500 and 1508 appear to show details of the Bahamas, Cuba and the North American mainland that were not officially reported until later.

Maps of Sunnydale have appeared at various times during the show:

Maps made prior to 1900 show that between Stockton and Middlesbrough the river flowed in a channel up to wide in places, with many shoals and sandbars.

Maps published on the Lebanese army website show different versions of the Lebanese southern border.

Maps of the metro network show it along with the numbered lines with an ' S '.

Maps of the regions made with radio telescopes show large streams of neutral hydrogen connecting the two galaxies, also as a result of the encounter.

Maps of Florida show that all five of these counties meet at one point near the center of the lake.

* Maps of internet sites show that APC is the central civil society knowledge-sharing hub in a vast web of organisations working on the World Summit on the Information Society.

Maps in London Overground trains, but not London Underground maps, show the station as 450 m from Upper Holloway station on the Gospel Oak to Barking Line.

* Maps show geographic areas that are of interest to the speech.

Maps from 1850 show 8 or 9 farm outbuildings at New Lodge, together with the large stone built manor house with its long carriageway and the ' Roundhouse ' lodge on the Wakefield Turnpike ( now the A61 ).

Maps show Rudheath as a suburb of Northwich.

Maps from the early 18th century, show the Thumb of Michigan as Le Pays Plat, which is French and means the Flat Country.

Maps from 1921 still show the proposed dock, but it is omitted on later editions.

* Hockenheim, Germany satellite picture Google Maps ( finally updated in September 2011 to show the new layout, but the footprint of the old circuit is still visible )

Maps in the first half of the 1800s show Gossipsgreen in varying layouts surrounded by farmland and close to a few small estates.