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The article looks at a mobile tourist app developed by Steve Romalewski, the director of the City University of New York's Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research. The app is designed to help find "hidden gems" among other storied points of interest in New York. Romalewski is developing apps for other cities as well.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/to-happen-upon-city-landmarks-by-way-of-an-app/
A new dataset called Bedmap2 gives a clearer picture of Antarctica from the ice surface down to the bedrock below. Bedmap2 is a significant improvement on the previous collection of Antarctic data—known as Bedmap. The product was a result of work led by the British Antarctic Survey, where researchers compiled decades worth of geophysical measurements, such as surface elevation measurements from NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, known as...
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