Manned or unmanned, we have made a lot of journeys across our own galaxy. Geoawesomeness shared this impressive map, which details all of those journeys and the vehicles that have made them.
If like me, you’re spent countless hours of your life sitting at traffic lights with hardly any traffic passing through, all because humans in general aren’t aware enough, quick enough, or kind enough to allow for free flowing traffic, well autonomous cars may be our saviour. Spectrum IEEE’s article shows how efficient (and terrifying) our modern intersections might be, transforming what we know as traffic lights into light traffic.
With seemingly every company with the budget to afford it branching into mapping and geospatial these days, GIS User has done us all a service and describes the differences between all the geo-products.
Drone photography continues to amaze… This time with this Yahoo compilation of panoramic views of the “new seven wonders of the world”, including Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer.
When using a webmap, the scrolling finger becomes quite engaged. MapsMania believes you should have fun with it and use one of the most useful but underused JavaScript libraries on the web has to offer… the Onion’s fartscroll.js. This simple little library allows you to add farting noises to your web sites.
On a more serious note, MapsMania ran an exclusive compilation of maps focussing on one of Australia’s closest neighbours, Indonesia, and how the Western World’s demand for Palm Oil has wreaked environmental disaster across the nation.
