The first images of the next Scottish Ten project have been released, showing unprecedented detail of the Eastern Qing Tombs – in use from 1666 to 1911 – which are the final resting place of some of China’s best known emperors. LiDAR News has the details, and a link to more images.
Mashable has a post telling us that, within only two days of its release, the Google Maps app for iOS has reached over 10 million downloads. Proof that Apple really dropped the ball, but also that Maps are a crucial part of our lives these days.
Speaking of Apple Maps, PC World has a story that shows, according to a report, Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue, is "prodding digital maps provider TomTom to fix landmark and navigation data it shares with Apple."
The Courier Mail tells us of a new mapping application by Queensland Police will allow the public to see what types of crimes have occurred in a given area.
Google Maps Mania points us toward a post by Darren Wiens, which tells you how to animate SVGs along polylines drawn over the Google Maps API, including an example map that fires a cute little missile from North Korea out to a random place on the globe. Warfare was never so erratically adorable.
To continue with Google Maps Mania for a moment, if you want to see a really great example of some of the non-map websites possible using the Google Maps custom tiles feature, The Production Kitchen offers a stellar example, with an interactive hand-drawn guide to baking a cake, which even includes a little game in the middle.
Not strictly spatial, but GIS User has an amazing video, which shows the largest ever glacier calving ever filmed, taken from the award-winning film, Chasing Ice.
In case you missed the link in this week’s article on NASA smashing two spacecraft onto the surface of the moon, Gizmodo has a great piece detailing the mission of the two orbiters – that is, to map the gravity of the moon down to the micron.
