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U.S. Route 6 ( US 6) is a major east–west road in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Nationally, the route continues west to Bishop, California, and east to Provincetown, Massachusetts. In western Rhode Island, it forms part of one of several routes between Hartford, Connecticut, and Providence and was planned to be replaced by Interstate 84 (I-84). The part of I-84 that was built, from I-295 ...
DeepMap was founded in Palo Alto, California in 2016 to create 3D mapping software to assist self-driving cars with navigation. [1] Founders James Wu and Mark Wheeler were co-workers on Google Maps, and before that at Apple and Baidu. [7] Wu became the company's CEO, and Wheeler became its Chief Technology Officer. [1] Also in 2016, the company raised $7 million in initial funding. [8]
Such maps can be precise at a centimetre level. High-definition maps for self-driving cars usually include map elements such as road shape, road marking, traffic signs, and barriers. Maintaining high accuracy is one of the biggest challenges in building HD maps of real-world roads. With regard to accuracy, there are two main focus points that ...
The projection appears in many Renaissance maps, and Gerardus Mercator used it for an inset of the north polar regions in sheet 13 and legend 6 of his well-known 1569 map. In France and Russia this projection is named "Postel projection" after Guillaume Postel, who used it for a map in 1581. [4] Many modern star chart planispheres use the polar azimuthal equidistant projection.
Left-hand traffic ( LHT) and right-hand traffic ( RHT) are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side and to the right side of the road, respectively. They are fundamental to traffic flow, and are sometimes called the rule of the road. [1] The terms right- and left-hand drive refer to the position of the driver and the steering wheel in the vehicle and are, in ...
A road map, route map, or street map is a map that primarily displays roads and transport links rather than natural geographical information. It is a type of navigational map that commonly includes political boundaries and labels, making it also a type of political map. In addition to roads and boundaries, road maps often include points of interest, such as prominent businesses or buildings ...
Death by GPS. 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 ...
Topographical disorientation is the inability to orient oneself in one's surroundings, sometimes as a result of focal brain damage. [1] This disability may result from the inability to make use of selective spatial information (e.g., environmental landmarks) or to orient by means of specific cognitive strategies such as the ability to form a mental representation of the environment, also known ...