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Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen is a Danish [1] computer scientist, technology executive, and the co-founder of Google Maps. [2] He was later the director of engineering for Facebook in London. [3] In early 2003, Lars and his brother Jens co-founded a mapping-related startup, Where 2 Technologies, which was acquired by Google in October 2004. Rasmussen ...
Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bike, air (in beta) and public transportation.
Google Map Maker was a map editing service launched by Google in June 2008. [2] In geographies where it is hard to find providers of good map data, user contributions were used to increase map quality. Changes to Google Map Maker were intended to appear on Google Maps only after sufficient review by
Waze Mobile Ltd, [2] (/ w eɪ z /; Hebrew: ווייז מובייל בע"מ) doing business as Waze (Hebrew: ווייז), formerly FreeMap Israel, is a subsidiary company of Google that provides satellite navigation software on smartphones and other computers that support the Global Positioning System (GPS).
In 1912, during the Dual System negotiations, the construction of an extension of the Fourth Avenue subway from 43rd Street to 89th Street, just south of the 86th Street station, was recommended. This recommendation was approved by the Board of Estimate on February 15, 1912. The PSC directed its chief engineer to create plans on June 14, 1912.
The Jackie Robinson Parkway is a 4.95-mile (7.97 km) controlled-access parkway in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.The western terminus of the parkway is at Jamaica Avenue in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York.
The 228th Engine Company fire station, a two-story Romanesque Revival building built for the Brooklyn Fire Department in 1891, and later used by the New York City Fire Department when the two departments were merged in 1898. [174] [175] The Sunset Park Play Center, a neoclassical/Art Deco structure built in 1936. [92] [174] [54]
Kings Plaza (officially the Kings Plaza Shopping Center) is a shopping center within the Mill Basin section of Brooklyn in New York City, New York, United States.Opened in September 1970, [1] [2] [3] it is located at the southeast corner of Flatbush Avenue and Avenue U, just north of Floyd Bennett Field.