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Unified mapping system slow to take hold

May 1, 2006 Four years before Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, the Federal Emergency Management Agency endorsed a plan for the "National Grid," a unified mapping system to help emergency responders navigate a city where the street signs and other landmarks are submerged, blown down, or washed away. At the time, FEMA said ...