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Tuesday, May 2. 2006
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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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