PC World have an article discussing Google’s recent addition of balloon- and kite-captured aerial imagery to Google Maps. The high-resolution imagery comes from The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science, and supposedly has much livelier colour and detail than the satellite and aerial imagery typically available.
Slate have an overview of the map that recently won the “Best of Show” award at the 38th annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society. It’s an amazing map, in part because it took the lone author 6,000 hours to complete.
The worldwide ‘Big Data Week’ is now on, with gatherings in the U.K., U.S., Germany, Finland and Australia. As such, O’reilly Radar asked Big Data Week founder/organizer Stewart Townsend of DataSift, and Carlos Somohano, founder of the Data Science London community and the Data Science Hackathon, to share their perspectives on the European data scene.
Between the Poles has a fascinating post on how Rwanda created a land registry system in less than 5 years, by basing it on satellite imagery and community consultations, rather than traditional cadastre.
The (unofficial) Google Earth Blog has a handy post on how to quickly share a location on Google Earth.
The Sydney Morning Herald has an article outlining some of the stunning satellite imagery captured (and released) by the GeoEye-1 Satellite, which shows how our planet has changed in the four years since its launch.
Business Computing world have a post that we probably all already knew: that presenting information visually is a better way to work.