Maps

London (England) - Some enterprising British teens are using Google Earth to find the nearest refreshing pool to cool off from the summer heat.

Los Angeles (CA) - AWS Truewind will release a 200-meter resolution wind map of the United States.

Beijing (China) - The Chinese government is chastising several online providers, including Google maps, for providing "illegal" satellite imagery of the country and neighboring islands.

U-Blox, a Switzerland-based developer of GPS receivers, said that it has developed one of the first Galileo tracking devices.

Wellington (FL) - A GPS tracking device has helped police catch a thief that snatched up a porcelain baby Jesus from a neighborhood Nativity scene.

The final satellites in a Russian GPS system are now in space. Today, the system is only operating at about 50% capacity. It's fully functional over all of Russia, and in 2009 it will be global.