Hey! dan and I are on Street View in Mahone Bay, NS!

As I said at the time, a sweet birthday present from Google (the van drove past us on my birthday, May 20).

Via metalana: strangemaps, which is quite wonderful.

I particularly note a map I've always wondered about: a US Pop vs. Soda Map.

This week I've bought art, a chair, and framing. And I'm looking forward to how my den's going to look in a few weeks.

catbear is making me a largeish print from a photo he took in Ottawa. I'm so looking forward to seeing it.

I have a large satellite photo of Lake Ontario. I love the photo- the blues and greens, the topography, the clouds. You ( Read more... )

Google Maps, you're fired. The "Baker Road" there on the right hand side? It totally doesn't do that. That's... a trail through the woods and down my parents' driveway. None of that's a road. Especially the dead-end bit to the north that's actually a precipice into a gravel-pit. *rolls eyes*

If you zoom out a bunch of steps on that map, it's ( Read more... )

1) Draggable routes on google maps. Nice interface, cleverly done.

2) Google property search! The interface is still slightly clunky, but it's got tons of data; I think they're getting into real estate tools in a fairly big way. I found this a month ago, and today it took me a while to find again, because nobody's blogged about it at all ( Read more... )

I can't decide which is cooler: World Mapper or GapminderGapminder receives points for flexibility and animated panache, but I'd like a "guided tour" to suggest statistics to compare or interesting bits of data. [oh. that's what the "help" section's for. Hm, I'll have to investigate further ( Read more... )

Courtesy gmaps_sights: To celebrate Australia Day, Google is doing a super-low flyover of Sydney this Friday. They've put up a live pointer of where the plane will be at any given time of the day, and they're recommending people wear distinctive clothing, go outside, and wave at the plane if they want to be put into Google Earth and Google Maps. *super- ( Read more... )

Google Labs' Transit has great potential; for the regions already covered, it looks like just the ticket.

The specs don't look so complicated; I wonder how much it would cost to import our local transit system.

According to the Google Group, Toronto's given Google their complete transit info, and may become another test-bed.

Last night: more insomnia. This time, preciptated by the dog howling in her sleep, twice. And one 'o them late-night headaches. Hate hate hate.

But:

this (People Bowling, thanks miss_chance)

and these gorgious animations:

FAA Flight Paths (thanks ckdmade the time pass ( Read more... )

The Bellagio Fountains re-created with Diet Coke and Mentos. A pretty fine show. Work-safe, though maybe turn down the volume first.
Their website is full of neat explosion science too (yay, nucleation sites!)

The Errant Aisle of Manhattan. What would happen if Manhattan went wandering? The rest of Radical Cartography is also worth browsing ( Read more... )