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T Map by SK Telecom; One Navi by KT corporation; Spain. Spanish official cartography website, including National Topographic Maps MTN50 (1:50,000 scale) and MTN25 (1:25,000 scale). SITPA-IDEAS, Asturias regional maps. Sweden. Eniro.se, also covers Denmark, Finland and Norway; Hitta.se; Thailand "Longdo Map", by Longdo.
The maps are named for Charles E. Goad who first produced such things for Fire Insurance companies. [1] [2] Charles Edward Goad was a Civil Engineer who practised in Toronto, London, Ontario, and elsewhere. His major business was the creation of detailed street maps for the inner areas of industrial cities, often as a client of insurance companies.
The original draftsman's drawings for the area around St Columb Major in Cornwall, made in 1810. Detail from 1901 Ordnance Survey map of the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda (showing St. George's Town and St. George's Garrison), compiled from surveys carried out between 1897 and 1899 by Lieutenant Arthur Johnson Savage, Royal Engineers.
This revealed that, on all their maps, A–Z print a non-existent trap street so that they can tell if a map has been illegally copied from theirs, a technique used by several publishers of reference works (see fictitious entry). The story of Pearsall's development of the A–Z also inspired the 2014 musical The A–Z of Mrs P.
The first electronic street map of London appeared on CD-ROM in 1996. [2] Another five years later, a range of maps were launched for personal digital assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones running Windows Pocket PC. [2] The company launched a London A-Z street map app for smartphones running Symbian in 2005 and for iPhones three years later.
The National Street Gazetteer (NSG) is an official database of all streets in England and Wales. It is compiled by the company GeoPlace from Local Street Gazetteers data, which is updated every month by the 175 local highway authorities. NSG acts as the authoritative reference dataset for streets in England and Wales. [1]
OpenStreetMap (abbreviated OSM) is a free, open map database updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration. [4] Contributors collect data from surveys, trace from aerial photo imagery or satellite imagery, and import from other freely licensed geodata sources.
Maps offers street views of Madrid and Barcelona. Bing Maps offers street views for some cities. Sweden: EGmedia.se and CycloMedia Technology BV offers actual street views of the largest cities in Sweden e.g. Göteborg, Stockholm, Gävle and Malmö on pixel level with 10 cm accuracy. Eniro Kartor provides street-level view of the majority of ...