pretty neat, i guess
Monday, March 17th, 2008Google Mobile Maps’ “My Location” from cell signal triangulation is fairly neat. It’s a few hundred meters off my true location downtown, but good enough if you were completely lost.
Posts Tagged ‘maps’
wiggly
Saturday, December 29th, 2007Can I just say that the road from Busch to Eureka Springs, Arkansas is the most gratuitously wiggly route I’ve ever driven?
Our route down from Kansas City was longer than I thought; place not blind trust in GPS routing, especially when you’re close to the edge of the maps you’ve uploaded. Due to one wrong turn on my part, we ended up in Overland Park, KS — rather than being on Hwy 71 all the way south. In future, I shall upload all the maps I need, plus all the states/provinces surrounding, so you don’t get that terra incognita/here be dragons feeling of falling off the edge of your wee scrolly map.
neat, but quite last summer …
Monday, February 12th, 2007Toronto Public Library Finder; nice, but I was so on that game months before …
geo mashup
Saturday, March 25th, 2006wind turbines from space
Friday, April 29th, 2005Update April 2007: I’ve created a Google My Maps page for these locations: Wind Turbines from Space.
Messing about with Google Maps, I went looking for wind turbines. And yup, you can see ‘em:
- Pickering, Ontario: Vestas V80, by Pickering Nuclear Power Station. You can see this quite clearly.
- Toronto, Ontario: maybe I’m imagining I can see the WindShare turbine.
Update, 3rd May: following my posting to awea-windnet, I got three more:
Thanks to David Wright for the California location, and Joe Duddy of RES (my old employer!) for the two from England. I’ve spent quite a bit of time on the latter two windfarms.
Update, 6 May: Found a couple more windfarms from space on googleglobetrotting.com:
- near Livermore, California.
- east of Tehachapi, California — dig the arrangement of blades in the boneyard.
Update, 20 June: Google now has worldwide coverage.
- Tarifa, Spain
- Middelgrunden, København, Denmark (offshore)
- somewhere else in Denmark — these are big turbines.
Update, 29 June:
- McBride Lake, Alberta — image taken while in construction. You can see the tower sections and the blades laid out. You can even make out the crane installing one of the northern turbines. This is a Vision Quest Windelectric project.