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What’s Up with Facebook Places?
Facebook Places was launched last week in an effort to connect history with geography. According to an article in CNET news, “Facebook Places will not just collect location check-ins, it’ll allow for messages and comments and pictures to be aggregated around them, creating a sort of ‘collective memory’ that places a layer of [...]
Nashville Flood
Recent infrared aerial photographs of the Nashville area flooding were taken by TN Department of Transportation. Generally TDOT charges for their imagery, however, according to folks at TDOT, these photos may soon become available to state and local governments for free. TDOT flew Monday, May 3rd - Saturday, May 7th over major flood [...]
Emotional Maps
Just when you thought "emo" couldn't get any more, well, "emo"... Since 2004, over 2000 people from 25 different cities around the world have participated in Christian Nold's Bio Mapping experiment. Using a GPS and GRS (Galvanic Skin Response) device (invented by Nold), Nold maps variant emotional responses of people as they travel through [...]
Google Maps Added Earth View
Google added the Google Earth plugin to their Google Maps site. If you haven't already downloaded the plugin, you can now do so through Google Maps.
10 Steps to Creating a Great Geocaching Event
Step 1 - - Check out www.geocaching.com to read about/sign up/ and find the geocaches currently in/near your geocaching event. You should also read "Cache Listing Requirements and Guidelines." Step 2 - - Using a GPS find the geocaches near the location of your geocaching event. You could use them in your event and/or make sure that you're [...]
Google Earth Buildings just got Smarter!
You can now find information about buildings in Google Earth's 3-D view. Simply click on the building and you will find links, text, and pictures about the building.
A little Google Earth halloween fun
The Google Earth blog posted about how you can turn your google earth experience into this special halloween edition. Download this kmz file and open it up in Google Earth. You'll see the earth in a whole new way.
Leveraging Google Earth to Find Your Way in ArcMap
One difficult task for me in ArcMap is finding an intersection of two roads. Much of my work is in the state of New Jersey and often times I’m asked to map a new site location from as little as an address or intersection. The NJDOT has a terrific roads layer, however it is difficult to search the entire data set. Many roads throughout [...]
Tour de France gets Google Street View
The Tour de France is on and so is street view for the course. This year you can see the course using Google's Street View technology. This LINK connects you to the traditional Google Maps site showing where street view is available over the course. The tour website is HERE. And a course map PDF is found HERE. I'm not sure if the street view [...]
Google releases API for browser-based Google Earth
This is pretty cool stuff. Now get Google Earth inside your browser. There is a full API and SDK for developers. Get the plugin here.
