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Tag: mapping
FireEagle
web service that allows users to submit their location via a number of devices and then expose that information to application on a per-application basis. Each application has to register with the system and can be granted different levels of granularity.
Scranton map
Location of the office. As documented by proud scranton residents
Powers of 1
Street View Paranoia
The Drudge Report, that early-warning system for democracy, is now using a screencap of someone peering out of a living room window as his top image. If that didn’t scare you, the banner headline might: SMILE, YOU’RE ON GOOGLE EARTH!
wow, the retards have discovered street view.
2008-04-10:
Google Australia is expected within months to launch an application that will publish highly detailed, street-level photos of much of Australia, in a move that has drawn strong criticism from privacy advocates.
While Google has defended the project, the internet company baulked when The Weekend Australian requested the personal details and addresses of the group’s key figures to allow the paper’s photographers to take pictures of their homes.
it’s luddite season again!
2008-07-30:
The report also includes the distance from the street to the executive’s front door, the most likely driving route the executive would take to Google’s Mountain View headquarters and photos of the stop signs, stoplights and intersections the executive would pass along the way. The Center is publicly releasing the document today to highlight the invasiveness of these Google technologies to individual privacy.
who are these assclowns?
What is it about Europeans that makes them so susceptible to populist arguments in favor of expectations of privacy in a public space? In Europe, Street View is getting a steady onslaught of negative publicity, mainly instigated by populist newspapers, about the evils of taking photography in a public place and publishing it. What a strange concept: Government officials complaining that a company is observing the law, but that they don’t like it anyway.
2010-08-23:
Geht es allerdings um Googles fotografierenden Fuhrpark, klingt Konstantin von Notz plötzlich so, als sei er frisch einer kommunistischen Kaderschmiede entsprungen: Google stelle “monopolartig” den “kompletten öffentlichen Raum” dauerhaft und “aus kommerziellen Interessen” ins Netz, schimpft er dann und fordert “eine Beteiligung der Öffentlichkeit an den Gewinnen”. Hui! Da kommt einfach dieser Internet-Konzern aus einem fernen Land und verdient Geld mit Abbildern des öffentlichen Raums? Ohne zu fragen? Also in etwa so, wie Postkarten- oder Reiseführer-Verlage? Das geht natürlich nicht! Enteignen! Notz ist in bester Gesellschaft, beim Wettbewerb um die höchste Punktzahl auf der nach oben offenen Streetview-Hysterie-Skala.
the real reason germany is so nuts about street view: it exposes the widespread technological illiteracy in europe.
Fundrace
interesting how republicans are east side, and dems everywhere else
London 2071
very neat. due to climate change, berlin will have a north african climate. this map relocates the capitals to their new climate zones
GlobCover
The most detailed portrait ever of the Earth’s land surface are now available to public with the release of the first GlobCover products
Extrasolar Map
A full-globe map of the “hot Jupiter” planet HD 189733b. The map reveals a “hot spot” that is offset from the substellar point (high noon) by 30 degrees. The offset may indicate jet stream winds of up to 10k kph.
wow. although, “map“, but still!
3D browser globe
cute, although useless because you can barely zoom in to a continent
Gregor J. Rothfuss 