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Sorrento is a coastal town on the Mornington Peninsula approx. 100km south of Melbourne Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 103 km (64 mi) south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Mornington Peninsula local government area.
Some locations on free, publicly viewable satellite map services have such issues due to having been intentionally digitally obscured or blurred for various reasons of this. [1] For example, Westchester County, New York asked Google to blur potential terrorism targets (such as an amusement park, a beach, and parking lots) from its satellite ...
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 ...
Death by GPS refers to the death of people attributable, in part, to following GPS directions or GPS maps. [1] [2] [3] Death by GPS has been noted in several deaths in Death Valley, California, [4] [5] a lost hiker at Joshua Tree National Park in southeastern California, [6] and incidents in Washington State, Australia, England, Italy and Brazil.
Historically starting at the Melbourne CBD at Princes Bridge as St Kilda Road and heading south through the Melbourne Arts Precinct, today Nepean Highway is declared to commence at St Kilda Junction as St Kilda Road and heads in a southerly direction until it reaches the intersection with Carlisle Street (prior to the widening in the late 1960s this section was formerly known as High Street [6 ...
Road routes in Victoria assist drivers navigating roads throughout the state, as roads may change names several times between destinations, or have a second local name in addition to a primary name. There are two main route numbering schemes in use: numeric shields, and alphanumeric routes, with the former being replaced by the latter.
Murray Valley Highway is a 663-kilometre (412 mi) [3] rural highway located in Victoria (with a short western tail in New South Wales), Australia, between Euston, New South Wales and Corryong, Victoria. [6] The popular tourist route mostly follows the southern bank of the Murray River and effectively acts as the northernmost highway in Victoria ...
Political map of Europe, showing south at the top. Research suggests that north-south positions on maps have psychological consequences. In general, north is associated with richer people, more expensive real estate, and higher altitude, while south is associated with poorer people, cheaper prices, and lower altitude (the "north-south bias").