Posts Tagged ‘maps’
Open Ski Maps
Just when you thought I couldn’t become any more of a map geek, I go pull something like this. Openpistemap.org is another open source, wiki style mapping project out to usher the world of skiing into convenient online map format. It operates using OSM data, but adds a few more rendering options in the side […]
Open Street Map
In addition to eating my way through Neal Stephenson’s gigantic Baroque Cycle hyper-marathon, one of my ‘stay sane’ activities over the past eight months has been heavy involvement in the Open Street Map project. Essentially OSM is a user-generated online slippy map, along the lines of Google Maps. Features are added by users using licensed […]
Another Social Media
I missed the exclusive college Facebook launch in 2004 and was relegated into the sparse hinterlands of Hi-Five, Multiply and even Friendster before being offered land in Facebook circa 2007ish. Taking a look at the 2010 map, I see that I still have properties in Skype, the blog islands, Youtube, a vacant condo in Twitter […]
The nation that wasn’t there…
I wasn’t clear on the exact location of the latest North Korean tantrum, so I enlisted the ever faithful Google Maps to precisely show me where the Kim Jong Ill minions were lobbing shells into civilians. Yeonpyeong Island is indicated in Red. To be fair, the island has also yet to be mapped. It’s possible […]
Google Street View
Yeah, it has been out for awhile, but in my ignorance I had no idea its saturation level into some countries, notably the USA, Japan, Australia and Europe. I’m quite impressed. I’m going to use Cape Vincent as an example of some of the places Street View has documented. Cape Vincent is in the US, […]
GeoBC
Map and raster geek alert. The Province of BC has posted a bunch of their geo data online @ http://geobc.bc.ca Distributed in kind of a webGIS format, the webpage presently incorporates parcel data, forest covers, health services into Microsoft Bing Maps. Fairly basic data set at the moment, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it […]
Super bad-ass maps
Strange Maps puts the cool back in mapping. The premise pretty simple, if you don’t think maps are cool after browing some of these post, then it is fairly obvious that you are not very cool. Some one once laughed at me for putting ‘maps’ as an interest on my Facebook profile – ha!
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