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Review: Insight Guide San Francisco
Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Insight Guide San Francisco Editors: John Wilcock: Martha Ellen Zenfel: Brian Bell: ISBN: 088729149X The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK ...

San Antonio Is For Everyone!
When I take a family vacation I want a little bit of everything - some fun, some thrills, some culture, some good food, a learning experience. San Antonio has it all! If this will be your first San Antonio vacation, you almost definitely need to plan it ...

Sydney to Brisbane -- make time to stop and smell the roses.
There are a great many road trips people embark on in Australia that look quite breezy on a map, but turn out to be many, many hours. Sydney to Brisbane is one of those kinds of excursions. Instead of trying to do the whole stretch in one go – 12 hours ...





Cuba-Pictures.com Launched by Lonely Planet Author
 


The original author of Lonely Planet Cuba announces the launch of Cuba-Pictures.com, a 14-page collection of 126 travel photos of Cuba.


All photos in this picture gallery are by David Stanley, who researched and wrote the first two editions of Lonely Planet Cuba, published in 1997 and 2000. Stanley first visited Cuba in 1975, and over the next four years he represented a Canadian tour company on Isla de la Juventud, at Varadero, and in Havana. Since then, he has revisited Cuba dozens of times.


A few of Stanley's photos originally appeared in Lonely Planet Cuba, while the rest are published here for the first time. They offer a cross section of Cuba, with the emphasis on "real Cuban life" rather than the artificial world of tourism. The images are intended to convey the atmosphere of some very special places, and the warm, friendly people who call Cuba home.


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Each page of pictures provides an introduction to a specific area, and all photos are fully captioned. The site also features a map of Cuba, a shopping mall with Cuban music, guides, and films, and a selection of travel links. http://www.cuba-pictures.com is now open to visitors.






David Stanley has been writing travel guides since 1979. His pioneering guidebooks embrace the South Pacific islands, Micronesia, Alaska, Eastern Europe, Cuba, and parts of Canada. Stanley researched and wrote the first three editions of Eastern Europe on a Shoestring, Lonely Planet's first guide to Europe. Though the current 3rd edition of Lonely Planet Cuba was updated by another writer, much of Stanley's material remains in the guide. His travel pictures of Cuba are now freely accessible at http://www.cuba-pictures.com.






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TomTom expands map coverage for its plug and play data solution for Oracle ...
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Already available throughout Europe and North America and now in key countries in South America, the product enables easy integration of TomTom map and routing data into location based applications powered by Oracle Database 11g.

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Three Maps and Several Numbers That Explain the Tuesday Night Primaries
Slate Magazine (blog)
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Google Mapping Tool Shows Impacts of Deforestation on Indonesia's Sumatra Island
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"People love maps. So it's natural that spatial Information is our best tool in saving our last tropical forests," said Carter Roberts, President and CEO of World Wildlife Fund. A powerful new mapping tool from Indonesian NGO coalition Eyes on the ...

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Move for interim Arizona legislative map dropped
Arizona Daily Sun
Challengers to the maps drawn by the Independent Redistricting Commission agreed Tuesday to drop their demand that a three-judge panel redraw the lines in time for this year's election. Instead, attorney Mike Liburdi said he and the other attorneys ...
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