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The group has been recognized by the WHO-TDR as one of the leaders in social innovation for health. Individual crowdsourcing projects have created videos promoting HIV testing, [96] videos promoting condom use, [97] images promoting sexual health, [98] and related topics. SETILive is an online project of Zooniverse.
All-electronic toll; must have FasTrak; HOV-2+ and motorcycles toll-free [8] US 101 (Express Lanes) 27.0 43.5 SR 237 – Sunnyvale: I-380 – South San Francisco: Variable toll pricing All-electronic toll; must have Fastrak; HOV-3+ and motorcycles toll-free; HOV-2 and single-occupant clean air vehicles pay half-price [9] I-405 (Express Lanes ...
Overlays group together items on a map, allowing the user of the map to toggle the overlay's visibility and thus all items contained in the overlay. The application uses map tiles from a third-party (for example one of the mapping APIs ) and adds its own collaboratively edited overlays to them, sometimes in a wiki fashion.
Google Maps Navigation is a mobile application developed by Google for the Android and iOS operating systems that later integrated into the Google Maps mobile app. The application uses an Internet connection to a GPS navigation system to provide turn-by-turn voice-guided instructions on how to arrive at a given destination. [ 1 ]
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
Dozens of toll highways now exist in Mexico, referred to as autopistas or supercarreteras. Most federal toll roads are four lanes, though some, especially in mountainous areas, are two. Toll (quota) roads provide high-speed alternatives to non-toll federal highways as well as bypasses of major and mid-sized cities.
The 12-lane New Jersey Turnpike in the U.S. is the most heavily traveled toll road in the world, carrying hundreds of thousands of automobiles daily.. A toll road, also known as a turnpike or tollway, is a public or private road for which a fee (or toll) is assessed for passage.
Many toll roads have implemented open road tolling which eliminates the need to stop at toll booths. Toll roads, especially near the East Coast, are often called turnpikes; the term turnpike originated from pikes, which were long sticks that blocked passage until the fare was paid and the pike turned at a toll house (or toll booth in current ...