Caught up in Olympic Fever? Google has created an Olympic Medals map that highlights which countries have one the most medals. Do check it out.
Want more Olympics, but less Google? Check out the Bing Maps Blog for Microsoft’s coverage of the big event.
One more Olympics story: LiDAR News has a post linking us to a story on how LiDAR was used to create a better fitting kayak for the Australian kayaking team.
O’reilly Radar has a post claiming that ‘Open Source won’, meaning that, while proprietary software still exists (the enemy hasn’t been vanquished), OS is now well-understood to be a “legitimate, mainstream option for technology tools and innovation.” What are your thoughts?
Google Maps Mania has a post highlighting a great little tool for visualising timed events, called MapTime.
“A good example of a deep time visualisation is the Organic Evolution Timeline which represents the evolution on life on earth from the beginning of single celled life until the present day as a journey on Google Maps. For example if you imagine the time-line as a journey from Washington to San Francisco with Washington representing the formation of the Earth, then the emergence of the human race occurs nearly at the end of your journey in the middle of San Francisco.”
Best of all, you can set any journey (say, Sydney to Darwin) as the start and end points, meaning you can create a visualisation with specific relevance to your target audience.
“A good example of a deep time visualisation is the Organic Evolution Timeline which represents the evolution on life on earth from the beginning of single celled life until the present day as a journey on Google Maps. For example if you imagine the time-line as a journey from Washington to San Francisco with Washington representing the formation of the Earth, then the emergence of the human race occurs nearly at the end of your journey in the middle of San Francisco.”
Best of all, you can set any journey (say, Sydney to Darwin) as the start and end points, meaning you can create a visualisation with specific relevance to your target audience.
I know it’s more Google Maps Mania, but this post highlights some wonderfully creative uses of the Google Maps API for use in viral marketing campaigns. The internet map, especially, is a great example of a map that represents something other than physical geography.
The Internet Map was also featured here, along with another fake-geography internet map.
The Internet Map was also featured here, along with another fake-geography internet map.
Directions Magazine has condensed the outcomes from this year’s Esri User Conference in the US into a few salient points.
