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ABC Australia has a nice Google Maps-based map of the results of last Saturday’s elections; there’s also a Google Earth network link (via Google Earth Blog). Links to other maps of the Australian election results welcome.

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Can’t get to Chicago for the Festival of Maps? (No. Dammit.) Fortunately, says Navteq’s Kevin Lenane, there’s an online version of the vaunted Field Museum exhibit. “This is the virtual gallery we did for the Field Museum Maps Exhibit,” Kevin writes. “It is, as far as I can tell, the only interactive [...]

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Flickr Places organizes geotagged photos into location-based pages — even my little town gets its own page. Meanwhile, Flickr’s map goes from pushpins to tags, which may necessarily not be an improvement. Announcements: Flickr Blog, Yahoo Local and Maps Blog.

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Garmin has withdrawn its $3.3-billion bid for Tele Atlas, leaving TomTom free to nab the company. Instead, Garmin has struck a deal with Navteq, their current map data supplier, to guarantee access to that data through 2015. Via Engadget.
Update: TomTom’s new bid is valued at $4.2 billion (€2.9 billion).

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It’s more of the same: truck drivers sent down narrow streets in Llangadog, Wales, by their satellite-navigation systems are crashing into buildings. Via Engadget.
This is happening too often to fall under the “random idiot” section of the news, however much Engadget or I like covering such incidents. Almost every story comes from Europe, [...]

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BART , the San Francisco Bay area rapid transit network, is getting new network maps, SF Weekly reports. The new maps will, in the words of a BART spokesman, “have more straight lines” in the idiom of other, diagrammatic maps of subway networks (the archetype of which is Beck’s Tube map); the current [...]

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The FBI has recovered two more maps stolen from the Spanish National Library, Reuters reports; out of a total of 19 stolen maps, that makes 11 that have since been recovered. Via Map the Universe.
Previously: Map Thief Surrenders; Some Maps Stolen from Spanish Library Recovered; Map Theft Updates; Spanish Map Theft Update; Maps [...]

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