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Navteq was an American company founded in 1985 as Karlin & Collins, Inc., later known as Navigation Technologies Corporation and eventually as Navteq. At the time of its acquisition by Nokia, Navteq was the largest maker of automotive-grade map data used in car navigation equipment.
Rugby is a market town in eastern Warwickshire, England, close to the River Avon.At the 2021 census, its population was 78,117, [1] making it the second-largest town in Warwickshire.
Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZAU) (radio communications: "Chicago Center") is one of 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCCs) operated by the United States Federal Aviation Administration. [1] It is located at 619 W. New Indian Trail Rd., Aurora, Illinois. [2]
The azimuthal equidistant projection is an azimuthal map projection. It has the useful properties that all points on the map are at proportionally correct distances from the center point, and that all points on the map are at the correct azimuth (direction) from the center point. A useful application for this type of projection is a polar ...
As an indication of the area's military importance, the first Ordnance Survey map ever drawn was a one-inch map of Kent, published in 1801. [24] Many of the Georgian naval buildings still stand. In the early 19th century, smugglers were very active on the Kent coastline.
Geographers' A–Z Map Company Ltd. is the largest independent map publisher in the United Kingdom, providing cartographic services, [1] digital data products [2] and paper mapping publications [3] (including Street Atlases, Visitors' Guides, Great Britain Road Atlases, and The Adventure Atlas).
The Grove is a large hotel in Hertfordshire, England, with a 300–acre (1.2 km 2) private park next to the River Gade and the Grand Union Canal.It touches on its north-west corner the M25 motorway and remains a small part in Watford.
The Slavery Abolition Act, passed the following year, abolished slavery in the British Empire on 1 August 1834, finally bringing the empire into line with the law in the UK (with the exception of the territories administered by the East India Company and Ceylon, where slavery was ended in 1844).