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The PDU-5/B is an aircraft-deployed leaflet dispersal unit. It is derived from the CBU-100 "Rockeye" Cluster Bomb, developed by the U.S. Air Force around 1999. It was used successfully in Afghanistan and Iraq to distribute leaflets. In 2015, it was used again to drop 60,000 leaflets near Raqqa, Syria. [1]
Mapbox is an American provider of custom online maps for websites and applications such as Foursquare, Lonely Planet, the Financial Times, The Weather Channel, Instacart, and Strava. [3] Since 2010, it has rapidly expanded the niche of custom maps, as a response to the limited choice offered by map providers such as Google Maps. [3]
Airborne leaflet dropping is a type of propaganda where leaflets are scattered in the air, normally by filling cluster bombs that open in midair with thousands of leaflets. Military forces have used aircraft to drop leaflets to attempt to alter the behavior of combatants and non-combatants in enemy-controlled territory, sometimes in conjunction ...
Around 2008, the general public made a significant shift away from MapQuest to the much younger Google Maps service. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In July 2010, MapQuest announced [ 14 ] [ 15 ] plans to become the first major mapping site to embrace open-source mapping data , launching a new site [ 16 ] separate from its main site, entirely using data from the ...
Google Street View is the most comprehensive street view service in the world. It provides street view for more than 85 countries worldwide. Bee Maps, powered by Hivemapper is the fastest growing mapping company in the world, mapping 29% of the world (until November 2024). It provides high-quality commercial street level imagery and road ...
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.
Apple Maps - covers the whole country; Bing Maps – covers the whole country; Google Maps - covers the whole country; Libre Map Project; MapQuest - covers the whole country; The National Map by the United States Geological Survey.
English: U.S. Service Members Assigned to the Special Operations Command-Central conduct print and leaflet drop operations over Syria, from Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar in November, 2021. The operation successfully dropped 42,000 leaflets over three villages in southeast Syria where local news outlets stated that they were a warning to ISIS and ...