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All The World's Subways Are Converging to a Single Optimal Layout
After decades of urban evolution, the world's major subway systems appear to be converging on an ideal form.
On the surface, these core-and-branch systems – evident in New York City, Tokyo, London or …

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The past century has been defined by an epic migration of people from rural areas to the city. In 2008, for the first time in history, more of the Earth's population was living in cities than in the countryside. The U.N. now predicts that nearly 70% of the global population will be city dwellers by 2050.

http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/world/road-to-rio/satellite-photos-urban-sprawl/index.html?hpt=wo_t3

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Great map, useful information, but online mapping interface is way to heavy and slow. It is no wonder people are looking to Google Maps to host their spatial information.

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Where America needs doctors, in one map
Dozens of counties have no primary care provider.

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Best Buy to close 50 big box locations to open 100 (presumably smaller) mobile retail stores.

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Best buy News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip – Gizmodo
Best Buy Is Closing 50 Big Box Stores and Opening 100 Mobile Shops. You Can Get Free iTunes Money at Best Buy Right Now. Best Buy Is Ruining Christmas.

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Using jQuery slider UI to formulate where query run on fusion table. In this case we run the query on building IDs which are meaningless but could easily be used to filter building size or population.

The amazing thing is how fast the results get returned to the map.

http://spatialcontext.com/TG_GoogleMapFusionTables.htm

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