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‘Google Maps’ Archives
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 [...]
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 and ESRI Announcement at Where 2.0 Conference
Picked up portions of this from All Points Blog today. Where 2.0 is a conference dedicated to "neographers", that new breed of mappers that are using free and open source map technology to develop some fairly advanced and easy to use maps (for the most part). No longer a fringe group, neogeographers are becoming part of the mainstream of [...]
Google Getting Sued over “Street View”
Invasion of Privacy! claims a Pennsylvania couple after filing a 10 page lawsuit with the Search Engine Giant. The couple claims their privacy was invaded when the Google "Streetview" vehicle took a picture, up their long driveway, while there was a posted "Private Road" sign at the end of the driveway. Google's defense, they have a method for the [...]
Nashville gets Google Street View
Nashville just got hooked up with Street View imagery on Google Maps. Zoom in to Nashville, click on the Street View link. Imagery is available for any street with blue highlights. Move the little stick figure guy around and then click to view street level imagery of the area. The image window has 360 degree pan features. By clicking along [...]
A Geeky Kinda Love
Found this Valentine's Day Mashup from Google maps API Blog. With it you can create a 10,000 ft view engraving of your own personal sweet nothing to your favorite someone. It looks cool and tacky enough that I'm sure those not inclined to flowers and chocolates will find it a great alternative. Here are a couple of other sites to get your [...]
