Maps

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How to download Google Maps (Android Police)

Google Maps makes it easy to navigate no matter where you're located. You can also download maps to use when you don't have an internet connection.

If you have a phone with microSD expansion, Google allows you to save offline maps to your expandable storage. Offline maps can act as a safety net when you want to explore without the risk of getting lost in a dangerous place. This applies to maps you manually download and automatic updates.2 Images - Enter the name you want to use for your offline map. If you don't update them or enable the automatic update feature, you won't have access to your offline maps after a year. While on the Offline maps settings page, follow these steps: To enable automatic updates, navigate to the Offline maps page and take these steps: Offline maps need to stay updated. Plus, you can download as many offline maps as your storage allows. If the selection rectangle shrinks when you pinch to zoom out, download as much as possible and repeat the process to download additional maps. Unless your internal storage is limited, you might be better off leaving offline maps on your internal storage. [Chromebook](https://www.androidpolice.com/best-chromebooks/), you can download Google Maps through the app to make sure you don't get lost when navigating through the boonies where the signal is sparse.

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Holy Spirit High Waiting for Name Change on Google Maps (VOCM)

The Principal of Holy Spirit High in CBS says the school is still waiting for a fix after someone with a bit o...

Locke says it’s not affecting operations and until Google makes the change, it’s just a source of amusement. Principal David Locke says the school contacted Google as soon as they discovered it, but they’re still waiting to have it fixed. The Principal of Holy Spirit High in CBS says the school is still waiting for a fix after someone with a bit of time on their hands and a playful sense of humour decided to have some fun online.

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Apple Maps Launches New Parking Feature in U.S. and Canada (Mac Rumors)

In partnership with parking platform SpotHero, Apple Maps now provides parking information for more than 8000 locations across the U.S. and Canada....

Today we're tracking the best New Year's deals on Apple's iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro models from carriers including AT&T, Visible, and Verizon. At CES this week, AMD announced a suite of new chips for notebooks and desktop computers, with one notable announcement being the company's new AMD Ryzen 7040 series of processors for ultrathin notebooks that will compete with Apple's M1 Pro and M2 chips. It's been weeks since we tracked solid discounts on the Apple Watch Series 8, and today Amazon has introduced the first of such deals for 2023. Hey Apple, it's Android the ball may have dropped on 2022, but you don't have to drop... Google is continuing on with its #GetTheMessage campaign attempting to convince Apple to adopt the RCS messaging protocol, this time taking out a large New Year's-themed ad at Harmon Corner in Las Vegas. In a post on Medium today, Kuo said that Apple planned to introduce its first in-house 5G chip in... Apple is reportedly planning to launch at least 10 Apple devices this year, with new product releases seemingly planned for each quarter of the year. Already, rumors suggest the devices will have at least six exclusive features not available on the standard iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus. Kuo previously said that the fourth-generation iPhone SE would be canceled or postponed, but he now firmly believes that the device has been canceled. After months of rumors about many of Apple's upcoming devices, we have gathered information from a range of sources to provide a tentative roadmap for the company's launch plans this year. SpotHero says the feature will also be available on the Mac. In 2019, Apple started rolling out a revamped Maps app with more detail, improved navigation, custom-designed 3D models of popular landmarks, immersive turn-by-turn walking directions powered by augmented reality, and more.

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Apple Maps makes finding a parking spot easier than ever with ... (9to5Mac)

To access the new SpotHero integration, you'll need to find a relatively notable landmark location where there are parking garages and lots nearby. Then, tap ...

Ideally, Apple could team up with a company like SpotHero or ParkMobile to offer parking information that is directly integrated into the Maps app itself. When you tap on the “Parking” button, you’re immediately redirected to a basic web view of the SpotHero website. SpotHero’s extensive dataset of parking facility details, photos and reviews is now available in the Apple Maps app on iPhone and Mac, allowing users to discover the best parking options in more than 8,000 locations across North America. In many instances, it would probably be easier just to go to the SpotHero website in Safari or use You can book and prepay for your parking spot in this SpotHero web view. To access the new SpotHero integration, you’ll need to find a relatively notable landmark location where there are parking garages and lots nearby.

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Apple Maps gets parking information with SpotHero integration (AppleInsider)

Apple has partnered with SpotHero to integrate parking information in Apple Maps for over 8000 locations in the US and Canada.

[iPhone](https://appleinsider.com/inside/iphone) or Mac, users can open Apple Maps and search for a popular location to see if parking information is available. [rolled out](https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/23/apple-maps-ratings-and-photos-feature-debuts-in-us) new features in the US that let users provide ratings for businesses, points of interest and other notable locations. [Apple Maps](https://appleinsider.com/inside/apple-maps) for over 8,000 locations in the US and Canada.

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Apple Maps Adds SpotHero for Parking Information (iClarified)

The SpotHero service lets users find and compare prices on hourly, monthly, airport and event parking at thousand of lots and garages across North America. To ...

Tapping the parking button will open the SpotHero website within Apple Maps for quick bookings. Apple Maps users can now quickly check for SpotHero parking information at a location by tapping the More ellipsis button. You'll know that there's a space in the garage waiting for you, taking the stress out of parking so you can concentrate on the things that matter most.

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Apple Maps teams up with parking app SpotHero to give users ... (TechCrunch)

SpotHero, a Chicago-based company founded in 2011, connects drivers in more than 300 cities across North America to thousands of parking spaces. Its dataset of ...

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Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz assails ... (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

The four candidates running for Supreme Court — Jennifer Dorow, Daniel Kelly and Everertt Mitchell and Protasiewicz — appeared at a candidate forum.

Mitchell, who declared his candidacy last June, raised $24,471 in the first six months of 2022 and had $27,767 in his campaign account on June 30. Kelly was appointed to the court in 2016 and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos hopes the Republican-controlled Legislature can introduce amendments to the state's abortion ban or write a new law that will be signed by Gov. Republican legislative leaders have said they don't want the race to become Supreme Court struck down its 1973 ruling legalizing abortion nationwide, leaving it up to state officials to decide their rules. "Unless we are dead set on tearing down the distinctions of the branches of government, we need to make sure the court exists for deciding legal distinctions." The decision put back into effect 21 will go onto the April 4 general election. I don't think you could sell any reasonable person that the maps are fair," said Protasiewicz, a Milwaukee County judge and one of four running for a seat on the state Supreme Court. Kelly, the other conservative, served with Roggensack. "I can't tell you what I would do on a particular case, but I can tell you my values, and the maps are wrong." [lost his bid for a 10-year term](https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/04/13/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-results-daniel-kelly-vs-jill-karofsky-conservative-liberal/2983933001/) in 2020 to Jill Karofsky, a member of the court's liberal minority.

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Apple adds a new useful parking feature to the Maps app (PhoneArena)

Apple iPhone users can now use Apple Maps to reserve parking spots in over 8000 locations without leaving the app.

For example, let's say that you've got tickets to see the New York Knicks or the Rangers play at Madison Square Garden and you want to reserve a parking spot; go to Apple Maps and look up Madison Square Garden in New York City. Besides appearing on the iOS Apple Maps app, the partnership with SpotHero will also allow Mac users to reserve parking spots. For example, [MacRumors](https://www.macrumors.com/2023/01/09/apple-maps-parking-feature-spothero/)notes that Apple has teamed up with digital parking marketplace SpotHero to deliver information to Apple Maps users on 8,000 parking locations across the U.S. [Apple](https://www.phonearena.com/apple)went back to the drawing board and [started collecting its own data so that it could build a new mapping and navigation platform](https://www.phonearena.com/news/Apple-is-collecting-data-for-Maps-on-foot_id109944)from the ground up. [released an apology](https://www.phonearena.com/news/Tim-Cook-apologizes-We-Are-Extremely-Sorry-about-Apple-Maps_id34990)with Tim Cook telling iPhone users to use Google Maps or other mapping and navigation apps until Apple Maps was fixed. A few places were incorrectly identified and Apple uncharacteristically

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Texas communities could lose out on millions due to inaccurate ... (Here And Now)

The Biden administration's infrastructure law includes $42 billion to improve broadband access across the country.

In Texas, state officials are leaving the responsibility of reporting the inaccuracies to residents and local officials. However, some local communities say the broadband maps used to allocate funding, are incorrect. [$42 billion to improve broadband access across the country](https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2022-12-20/state-office-may-not-challenge-broadband-maps-risking-hundreds-of-millions-of-federal-funds-for-texas).

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Conservation of Spanish Armada invasion maps reveals red ink ... (Art Newspaper)

Analysis of 16th-century, hand-drawn maps finds that the reds pigments were only available from the late 19th century.

The maps are generally in good condition, though one has traces of repaired mould and water damage after a flood in the 1960s at their former home at Hever Castle in Kent. Last year, the maps were sold by the Astor estate but the government barred their export to a US collector because of their heritage value. The map's convincingly antique, delicate shades of red were added either for an auction or by the book dealer who bought them and sold them on at a handsome profit to the Astor family.

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What's better than maps or stamps? Maps on stamps! (Big Think)

The magic happens when they overlap — maps on stamps! Welcome to the fascinating, endangered world of cartophilately.

[no, not the DR Congo](https://www.thoughtco.com/why-two-congos-in-africa-3555011) — and Venezuela put out stamps that celebrated the flags of their continental neighbors, a veritable flag buffet, so to speak. Specifically, it lost its access to the coast to Chile (stamp 2) and the largest part of the Chaco region to Paraguay (stamp 3). On stamps issued by Israel’s hostile neighbors, the same shape becomes a reminder of the Palestinian plight; on the Djiboutian stamp, the shape is represented by the kheffiyeh, the region’s traditional male headdress. The maps on these stamps don’t covet their neighbor’s land. These maps also do political work, but in a slightly more subtle way: by enlarging the country of issue. The term comes from Italia Irredenta (“Unredeemed Italy”), which is what Italian nationalists in the late 19th century called parts of their neighboring countries. Well, it happens to entire countries as well — so much so that they feel it is necessary to point out where exactly they are on the map. New Zealand has chosen proximity over hospitability and claims a slice of the white continent they call Ross Land, due south of New Zealand itself. These teach you that in 2018, Bangladesh graduated from “least developed” to “developing” country; which route the British explorer Shackleton took on his “Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition” (1914-17); the four occupation zones into which Berlin was divided after World War II; where coffee is mainly produced (in red) and where it is mainly consumed (in green); how far it is by air from Miami to the capital of the Dominican Republic (340 miles); which part of France was first liberated from the Nazis (Corsica, not Normandy!); how small the Swiss confederation was when it began in 1291; and where Nowruz (a.k.a. Before it joins the dodo, here are some highlights from [Gilad’s Maps on Stamps](https://mapsonstampsdb.com/), a database containing more than 17,500 individual examples from across the world, dating mostly from the 20th century. These stamps depict four of those claims by Argentina, Chile, the UK, and New Zealand. In 1966, France celebrated the centenary of the Paris pneumatic post.

Atlantic Council survey maps what the world will look like in 2033 (Atlantic Council)

From the fate of Russia to the state of the climate, a new Atlantic Council survey previews the decade ahead as part of the Council's flagship Global ...

(Think attempts to rein in social-media algorithms, gig and platform workers joining the global labor-rights resurgence, and revolutionary new electric-car batteries.) The survey participants assess geopolitics, economics, and the future of global affairs for a living, and were evenly distributed across academia, the private sector, nonprofits, and government. [forecast of what the world will look like in 2033](https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/welcome-to-2033/)—how today’s crises will resolve, what new ones will crop up, and which trends are set to reshape international affairs.

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