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Fifty years after the death of General Francisco Franco, thousands of monuments, plaques and street names honouring the ...

The Flood Insurance Rate Maps used by FEMA are based on antiquated ... (FEMA did not respond to a request by National Geographic for an interview.) FIRM’s shortfalls date to their creation ...

A picnic table marks the meeting point of several European countries, where users can have lunch in three different countries ...

Despite having access to this vast strategic asset, Portugal has repeatedly failed to convert it into geopolitical or ...

Abstract: It is difficult to separate the point symbols from the scanned topographic maps accurately, which brings challenges for the recognition of the point symbols. In this paper, based on the ...

PM Modi visits Adampur Air Base on May 13, 2025, affirming India's defense strength and refuting false claims after Operation Sindoor.

The technique accepts a vector representation of a geographic map and spatializes the textual labels in the space onto polylines and polygons based on user-defined visual attributes and constraints.

Many maps were practical, produced for navigating expanding trade routes, but a few notable creations contained more than just geography. These reflected cultural, social, and political concerns ...