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Beginning in the 1990s with a new edition of the visitors' map, there is evidence of increased concern about the large number of automobiles in the park. Efforts at traffic control are indicated by the establishment of several one-way roads. Another trend is for the maps to include more detailed trail and backcountry information as hikers and campers attempt to escape the park's more crowded areas in search of the peaceful places for which these mountains are known. Trails in the park are ... connected with those outside the park, making the maps more user-friendly to hikers.
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As a user explores the map of North Carolina, she is immersed in an environment of real-time sounds and textures. She can move towards regions of interest based on the direction of their iconic sounds. For example, sounds of birds chirping that come from the left indicate that a forest is nearby to the west. Furthermore, she receives information through tactile feedback. Cities, for instance, cause a tactile mouse or gamepad to vibrate when the cursor hovers over these regions of importance. Once the user nears her destination, information about local landmarks becomes available.
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Three USGS maps of the national park were published at a scale of 1:125,000 in 1950. They were based on the detailed surveys that were used for the 1:24,000 quadrangle maps. The first was simply a base map, showing place names, waterways, and the park boundary, without any information on topography. The second used contour lines over the base map to show relief. The third was a composite of the first two with shading added to the contour lines to produce a beautiful shaded relief map of the park. All three had extensive text about the Smokies on the verso.
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NCREN has overlaid information about education institutions from across the state on a Google map of North Carolina and the NCREN statewide network. Users can select the type of institution they want to view, including public universities, private universities, community colleges, K-12 public schools, and private K-12 schools. The views can be either statewide or focused on an individual school district.
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The BATS: Roman Britain prototype augments a digital map of ancient England with a number accessibility features to support exploration by a blind user. Text-to-speech synthesis delivers information from user queries into spatial data including location names, location types, and elevations to name a few. Spatial sounds provide a context for user exploration by playing audio cues in the corresponding directions and distances from the users current cursor location on the map. Searching for specific locations and calculating relational distances between two points of interest are ... made easy by the software.
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