Day 986: Cyclone Nargis Flood Maps
Posted on May 10, 2008 - Filed Under aid, global, mapping, weather | Leave a Comment
IFRC: Aid moving out but more needed
[As of May 9th,] over 220,000 people have received some form of aid from government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), other organizations and the general public. Over 80,000 of them have been served by Myanmar Red Cross … “Food, hygiene kits, water purification tablets, mosquito nets, sanitary supplies and most importantly […]
Day 942: And You Were Worried About Red Light Cameras
Posted on March 26, 2008 - Filed Under computing & internet, funny, mapping, new orleans | 4 Comments
On first seeing it, I thought the map referred to the Broadmoor neighborhood of New Orleans. It turns out to be a possible drug deal going down in the Southside of Chicago as captured by the Google Maps “Street View” camera. Silly me, New Orleans has no street views.
I go back and forth between pondering […]
Day 680: How Google Earth Really Works
Posted on July 10, 2007 - Filed Under gizmos & hacks, mapping, visualization | 1 Comment
Mapheads out there will be pleased to read Avi Bar-Zeev’s multi-part series on How Google Earth (Really) Works. A graphics expert, Bar-Zeev is an original founder of Google Earth and created some of the rendering applications for Second Life and other VR simulators.
After the intro and legalese comes Part 1, The Result: Drawing a 3D […]
Day 676: While On The Topic Of Sea Level Rise
Posted on July 6, 2007 - Filed Under environment, global, mapping, new orleans, science & technology, visualization | Leave a Comment
This reminds me of the time a friend’s student wrote about “seal levels” and “seal level rise” in her homework and tests, and cracked us up. Oh, how we mocked, “Oh, wait until global temperatures rise and Sea World and circuses have a huge influx of seals!” Bad grad student humor, I know.
Anyway, here […]
Day 620: Google LatLong Blog
Posted on May 10, 2007 - Filed Under mapping | Leave a Comment
Google’s Earth & Maps Team now has its own blog. Their list of links can be a little less Google-heavy but is pretty informative all the same.
Read More..>>Day 618: ESRI Announces Crime Analyst Software
Posted on May 8, 2007 - Filed Under crime, gizmos & hacks, mapping, new orleans | Leave a Comment
From GISUser.com:
Presenting information [attributes such as offender name, time of day, and type of crime] on a map provides a new perspective, while trends and patterns become more apparent. Once incident data is depicted on a map, users can conduct further analysis to identify the boundaries of “hot spots”, determine proximity to schools or gang […]
Read More..>>Day 575: Google Maps Has Super Zoom
Posted on March 26, 2007 - Filed Under funny, gizmos & hacks, mapping, visualization | 6 Comments
GoogleMaps SuperZoom Chad Screenshot - Camel!
Geekologie reports:
Google Maps apparently has a super zoom function for certain locations. Some of them are additional images inserted for partners like National Geographic, but others are actual satelilite photos of random locations … The original zoom levels were okay, but this is to the point where privacy is actually […]
Day 573: GeoPress Experiment
Posted on March 24, 2007 - Filed Under computing & internet, crime, gizmos & hacks, mapping, new orleans, public domain, science & technology, visualization | Leave a Comment
Following up on the last two posts, I installed GeoPress on this WordPress site. The installation took under 10 minutes, most of which was spent acquiring Google and Yahoo! Maps API keys and waiting for all of the servers to talk to one another.
As a test, let’s map the armed robbery that recently took […]
Day 573: OpenSource Mapping Tools On The Web
Posted on March 24, 2007 - Filed Under computing & internet, geology, gizmos & hacks, mapping, new orleans, public domain, science & technology, visualization | 4 Comments
Or what Maitri has been putzing with when not working, reading or blogging. FYI, this post is not an exercise in geekery; it involves free visual mapping tools that anyone at any level of computer expertise can get around, learning a new skill and helping your community and you understand your particular space and its […]
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