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"Polymaps provides speedy display of multi-zoom datasets over maps, and supports a variety of visual presentations for tiled vector data, in addition to the usual cartography from OpenStreetMap, CloudMade, Bing, and other providers of image-based web maps."

The new and advanced version of Google maps is entering via Google Play to Android devices. Here are five tips to use new Google Maps on Android.

A 3D laser mapping system developed by FIT ESIC has been used to survey hundreds of kilometres of the French railway network on behalf of operator SNCF. Frances Marcellin finds out about the challenges of creating the map and the benefits it will bring to safety and maintenance on the network.

Turn your spreadsheets into pie charts, maps and more with these handy tools. Big data is abuzz in the technology sector right now, but nobody is quite sure how to take advantage of it. While vendors talk up the benefits of collecting reams of data, it is less clear how you will turn it into useful business intelligence.

It will be decades before the UK Government builds a long-term storage for the country's radioactive nuclear waste; but where is this waste produced, contained, transported and stored in the interim, and just how much of it is there? Via an interactive map, Future Power Technology, provides the answers to these questions.