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  2. Zhangye National Geopark - Wikipedia

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    The result (similar to a layer cake), was tilted by the action of the same tectonic plates responsible for creating parts of the Himalayan mountains. Wind, rain, and time then sculpted extraordinary shapes, including towers, pillars, and ravines, with varying colours, patterns, and sizes.

  3. Google Maps - Wikipedia

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    On September 23, 2020, Google announced a COVID-19 Layer update for Google maps, which is designed to offer a seven-day average data of the total COVID-19-positive cases per 100,000 people in the area selected on the map. It also features a label indicating the rise and fall in the number of cases. [51]

  4. Open Location Code - Wikipedia

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    It was developed at Google's Zürich engineering office, [2] and released late October 2014. [3] Location codes created by the OLC system are referred to as "plus codes". Open Location Code is a way of encoding location into a form that is easier to use than showing coordinates in the usual form of latitude and longitude. Plus codes are ...

  5. Web Mercator projection - Wikipedia

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    The standard style for OpenStreetMap, like most Web maps, uses the Web Mercator projection. Web Mercator, Google Web Mercator, Spherical Mercator, WGS 84 Web Mercator [1] or WGS 84/Pseudo-Mercator is a variant of the Mercator map projection and is the de facto standard for Web mapping applications. It rose to prominence when Google Maps adopted ...

  6. List of county routes in Suffolk County, New York - Wikipedia

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    Was the shortest county road in Suffolk County; former segment of the LIRR Sag Harbor Branch. No longer recognized by SCDPW or NYSDOT. [1] CR 82: 1.62 2.61 NY 27A: Higbie Lane and Udall Road in West Islip: NY 27: CR 83: 11.53 18.56 Patchogue village line at Howard Avenue North Ocean Avenue and Patchogue–Mount Sinai Road NY 25A in Mount Sinai ...

  7. Google Street View coverage - Wikipedia

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    The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York City.

  8. Google Map Maker - Wikipedia

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    Google Map Maker was a map editing service launched by Google in June 2008. [2] In geographies where it is hard to find providers of good map data, user contributions were used to increase map quality. Changes to Google Map Maker were intended to appear on Google Maps only after sufficient review by

  9. Metacomet Ridge - Wikipedia

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    Mount Sugarloaf, Pocumtuck Ridge, and Mount Toby, also in Massachusetts, together present a larger "layer cake" example. The bottom layer is composed of arkose sandstone, visible on Mount Sugarloaf. The middle layer is composed of volcanic traprock, most visible on the Pocumtuck Ridge. The top layer is composed of a sedimentary conglomerate ...