A peculiar map recently featured on Mashable calculates the travel times between major cities in Ancient Rome. To quote: “it’s Google Maps for the ancient world, complete with the ‘Avoid Highways’ feature.”
Spatial Information in the 21st Century has a discussion of the SDI re-launch at the CRC-SI annual conference that occurred in Brisbane last week. It asks the question “Can the CRC transform this from an ‘also-ran’ into a golden opportunity?”, believing that the answer is “yes.”
LIDAR News alerts us that the National Survey of Finland has opened up its LIDAR database for free-of-charge topographic data, including the LIDAR point cloud for parts of the country. It’s another step in the direction of setting data free.
For all the Eurovision fans out there, Google Maps Mania has the skinny on this year’s Eurovision song contest map. You can click on any of the competing countries to see their entry, and have yourself a little sing-along, if that’s your thing.
The (unofficial) Google Earth Blog has a post teaching us how to correct errors in Google Earth; a handy little guide that will surely appeal to the cartographically fussy in the crowd (like me).
An interesting new project, called MapStory, has recently launched that aims to be a “compliment to Wikipedia”. Rather than another Open Street Map, the idea seems to be that anyone can upload a complete, time-based map that explains a story. The maps are then freely distributable, and ready for teachers etc to spread the story they tell. You can visit the site at http://mapstory.org/, or learn more at the Wiki page..
