Elevation Layer on Maps at Ask.com

Tuesday, May 2. 2006

Elevation Layer on Maps at Ask.com

Searce Engine Watch blog lets us know that Ask.com now hosts elevation shading maps. Are they the first free commercial portal site to do so? The elevation data is from GLCF, USDOC, NOAA, NGDC per the citation. The tab is called "physical" and data is only available at small scale (large area) resolution.

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Ask.com Relief Maps
I didn't pay much attention when Ask.com unveiled its own mapping service a little while back, but now they've done something that no other online mapping service has done yet: they've added a relief map layer: It only works on...

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Tracked: May 06, 11:45

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