January 17, 2012 – 3:50 pm
I find this very troubling. Someone at Google appears to be deliberately and systematically polluting and plundering the crowdsourced data of competitors. Two instances seem to have been all but proven so far (check this post about OpenStreetMap and Mocality), it seems unlikely that it stops there. If ever an action was hypocritical and seemingly [...]
Update: 18 months now, still prodding google, but no answers yet Google Street View is brilliant – in fact, the whole digital map revolution is largely driven by expectations set by Google. Their tech is amazing. Unfortunately, as an organisation, they often fail to come up to scratch. A shame… here’s an example: Every now [...]
In the wake of my previous post, I was checking out some of the photos on Google maps of Sydney Road, one of my photos came up first, which was nice, but then I started navigating around the nearby photos… they were all crappy photos of a shoe store! I probably missed this addition, but [...]
Couple of new things on Google Maps / Street View. They’ve added some new imagery captured by the trike, Google Earth Blog has a good write up of the additions. While I was there, I was alerted by user “Munden” that the blue dots of user generated photos had disappeared from the Google Maps when [...]
February 22, 2011 – 1:23 pm
Christchurch cops it again! Live footage on ABC24. Harrowing stuff. People being pulled out of the Pyne Gould Guinness building shown here before (google street view) and after. Ooops! I’ll leave the post as is, but it seems my ‘before’ picture is the building next door – almost identical in appearance. Street view stops just [...]
January 17, 2011 – 2:21 pm
When it comes to big events like the recent floods in Queensland and Victoria, it’s information overload. The news organisation love it, broadcasting incessantly and devoting great slabs of print to it. I don’t want to add to that, so this post is just a scrapbook of, for me, the most striking images. These are [...]
December 13, 2010 – 10:20 am
It’s true! sadly. If you’re not convinced, just check these two images from NASA. They depict global temperature anomalies over the course of a decade. The top one is the most recent: 2000-01-01 to 2009-12-31, while the bottom is a decade from my youth: 1970-01-01 to 1979-12-31. Quite the little climate vandals, ain’t we?Click through [...]
November 10, 2010 – 9:19 pm
Wow! so much to post about all of a sudden. Google have just announced an update to their streetmap data, adding new streets in the rapidly expanding areas of our cities. Yay! I mean it is exciting, in fact, I think it’s the first update to the map data since they released it! Well, at [...]
November 9, 2010 – 5:41 pm
Went along to #MoMoMelb yesterday, the local chapter of a pretty active mobile industry group. Their focus is usually a bit on the carrier/commercial side of the industry, so I rarely find anything that really interests me, but this one was about Location Based Services, so naturally, I couldn’t resist. I remember the first time [...]
October 1, 2010 – 4:00 pm
Two google fanboy posts in one day! Still, they’re worth it Google have just made their short URL generating service available through a public web interface. This is not that earth shattering, I’ve been using the service via the chrome extension and it’s worked well for some time now. However, the excitement starts if you’re [...]
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