Sentences with phrase «vast map in»

But out there, on the edges of the Sahara, the stars traced their own vast map in the sky, as clear as any roadmap.

Not exact matches

Building on some of the vast changes to Maps it outlined in May at its developer's conference in San Francisco, Google has redesigned the popular app, aiming to improve its search and navigation features.
REALITY is so infinitely vast that we can only take in and re-present «mental maps» or perceptions of what we «believe» to out there.
As the map indicates, for the vast majority of counties in the United States, the foreign born population is very low.
Increasing numbers unable to afford dentists Post Offices wiped off the map Threatened closure of GP surgeries Vast debts in off balance sheet PFIs (at least one of my dwindling county police stations has to pay # hundreds just to put up a notice board) Servicemen being killed pointlessly because they don't have enough kit.
Because the Jump Glider uses the sun's rays to recharge, he envisages that the robots could be deployed in a swarm, communicating wirelessly, to carry out coordinated environmental monitoring or mapping missions across vast areas like the Australian outback.
This vast and rugged region, part of the National Landscape Conservation System administered by the Bureau of Land Management, was the last major area in the lower 48 states to be formally mapped by cartographers.
The site is a potpourri of useful material: audio files telling the story of Snow's investigations; an exhaustive collection of Snow's original writing; a vast library of articles written about Snow's legacy; annotated maps of London, including Snow's famous map of the Soho outbreak; short biographies of the major figures in Snow's life; excerpts from books that mention him; dozens of photographs, including images of Snow and landmarks in London related to his life; modern - day scientific explanations of the cholera bacteria; and much more.
A graphic representation maps the local superclusters of galaxies in our universe, but also something else: vast tracts where few galaxies exist, called voids.
The lake, which is almost half a kilometre deep in places, is on Rwanda's north - west border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (see map) and contains a vast reservoir of dissolved methane.
Viewed on a map, South Georgia Island is a speck in the vast Southern Ocean.
In the Oct. 17 SN: General relativity turns 100, speedy tsunami forecasts, Enceladus» vast ocean, female voles all look alike, mapping deadly air pollution and more.
No single entity is capable of addressing the vast needs for improved climate services in these nations: for everything from projections of future sea - level rise that help planners identify places to build and develop that are out of harm's way, to maps that overlay population, infrastructure, and climate data to help decision makers target resources to areas of greatest vulnerability.
(a) The Regents of the University of California are requested to establish the Cal - BRAIN program to leverage California's vast research assets and the federal BRAIN Initiative's funding opportunities to accelerate the development of brain mapping techniques, including the development of new technologies, which will create new, high - paying jobs in California while advancing patient care and improving lives, in order to achieve the following goals: (1) Maintain California's leadership role in neuroscience innovation.
But together, they are using Argonne's vast arsenal of innovative technologies to map the intricacies of brain function at the deepest levels, and describing them in greater detail than ever before through advanced data analysis techniques.
Dr Shannon explained that the vast spaces between objects in the Universe contain nearly invisible gas and a plasma of ionised particles that used to be almost impossible to map, until this pulse was detected.
One of the most loved clips from Rowan's vast back catalogue, a hilarious sketch where the angry teacher played by Rowan invites a father in to Wales: Geographical and historical treatment of Wales, including maps and statistics as well as a survey of its people, economy, and government.
In the same way, Walsingham is her link to the world of politics and diplomacy, where again she is seen as a dominant presence, a matter visually underlined by an eloquent overhead shot of Elizabeth striding over a vast map of Western Europe discussing with Walsingham and her advisers the strategy to take on the Armada.
Letting loose a team of up to four players in a setting that seems to be right out of the 1940's, Zombies has you searching a vast map for items required to complete rituals whilst gaining points for killing zombies along the way.
The film is about the life of Gertrude Bell (Kidman), a British explorer, who set out into the Arab desert to discover the mystery of the vast lands, while becoming a significant person involved in drawing out the geographic map lines.
While we can't expect any new character classes or 4 - player dungeons, the upcoming expansion does offer a vast new area of the Tamriel map to explore, a chance to engage more deeply in the lore that enshrouds the area, and the much - demanded jewelry crafting skill line, among many other things.
I was shown the way that point of view shapes understanding of the object of inquiry when I recently examined freehand maps of the world drawn from memory by a group of preservice teachers.1 As might be expected, the vast majority depicted North America in the center of the map and with a relatively high degree of accuracy and detail.
The vast bulk of them tend to be city maps for virtually every major city in the world and audiobooks.
On the three scientific voyages he led between 1768 and his violent death in 1779, English Navy Captain James Cook explored and mapped vast regions of the previously uncharted world, filling in with astounding accuracy fully a third of the globe.
Whilst recording manatee sightings and behaviours, in relation to human disturbance and various environmental factors, you will explore, map and monitor vast seagrass beds for the benefit of the manatees and other species that rely on these habitats.
The Sierra Club Trail Guide maps out eleven adventurous trails in this vast wilderness, including three beautiful trails in the nearby Lopez Lake area.
The largest and most comprehensive cartographic collection in the world, the Geography and Map Division contains over six million maps in addition to a wide array of atlases, globes, raised relief models, archives, a vast collection of digital data and a GIS research center.
The world map menu is also rather quirky — and in a really good way — where your vessel is pixelated and shrunk, floating from zone to zone at your will in a vast universe.
Yes, the world is large and vast; and yes, there are a lot of little spots marked on the map that represent things to fetch, things to kill and places to unlock fast travel... along with, of course, NPCs who will inevitably tell you to fetch and kill things in other places on the map.
Dragon Age on the other hand painted the picture of being a vast open world, but in reality what we got was small sections of a map filled with enemies.
Or searching for a tiny little mission goal in a vast ocean by using a truly useless treasure map.
Furthermore the vast majority of the map is just open ground with very few buildings or much in the way of cover, meaning you're easy pickings for anybody that has picked up a firearm.
In Patapon 2 they have added an evolution map that has a vast majority of classes to upgrade to.
Enemies appear in the same spots every time you approach an area and there are only a handful of other characters who dot the vast maps, dishing out cryptic advice (that's not necessarily a criticism, it's partly why the Dark Souls games are so great).
Battlefield 4's performance - sapping 64 - player online battles also see a vast improvement - we dipped into an intense multiplayer session and saw a marked improvement, representing a vast increase in fluidity over the same map running on the base PS4 hardware.
A Hat in Time remedies the long hallways and vast nothingness of Yooka - Laylee's maps, and it does it with style.
While we can't expect any new character classes or 4 - player dungeons, the upcoming expansion does offer a vast new area of the Tamriel map to explore, a chance to engage more deeply in the lore that enshrouds the area, and the much - demanded jewelry crafting skill line, among many other things.
Teams who coordinate will often get the most out of games, with a spread of the game's vast array of weapons the best way to not just cover the territory in your own colour, but to also hold specific sections of a map.
While the maps in Sniper Elite 3 were vast and put together well, there wasn't much in terms of variety.
There's no vast empty spaces for the sake of increasing map size, and it makes the game come across as immediately more focussed than its peers in the open world genre.
Efforts have clearly been made to make the running experience smoother and this is most evident in the vast open map of the frontier.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain blends the crazy storylines of past games in the franchise with vast open maps to create what might be the ultimate in Tactical Espionage Action.
While replayability generally is a case by case basis, Battlefront is sorely lacking in maps, especially with the vast Star Wars Universe from which they pull.
The world is vast and fairly varied meaning that the game keeps you driven to find the collectables that are scattered about the map just in case you see something new or stumble across an encounter.
Nevertheless, being able to run around on vast maps as storm troopers is a joy, and players even acquire power - ups, turning them into some of the most (in) famous characters in film history.
The Dawn of Kernel, developed by usebox.net (primary coding duties performed by Juan J. Martinez), takes its inspiration from classic shooters such Cybernoid and is set to feature blasting action mixed with strong tactical and puzzle elements set in a vast gaming map that is sure to provide gamers with long term playability.
The highly anticipated map is set in a vast and barren Desert that includes eight big and dense urban zones to help get the fight going.
We're yet to see it in action, but are promised that it will be hosted on a vast map - the largest in Call of Duty history and playable characters will be drawn throughout the franchise's different chapters.
Soldiers and huge mechs battle with and against each other in vast, science - fiction - themed maps, and all the while there's AI gnawing at your ankle.
You have to buy your apps in - game, so you won't automatically start with maps and markers to guide you to missions and nor will you have access to the game's vast media collection.
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