Sunday saw the 100 year anniversary of the discovery of Machu Picchu, the ancient city on a mountain that is considered one of the new seven wonders of a world. To celebrate, Google Earth Blog has put together some different Machu Picchu themed resources, including an – admittedly fairly basic – 3D fly-through.
The Independent has an interesting piece telling the story of the cartographers responsible for mapping the borders of the world’s newest country, South Sudan.
You can read more on the publication of the new South Sudanese border – including a discussion of the difficulties in mapping the border, and the reasons why Google Maps took a little longer to publish their version of the new border – over at Ogle Earth.
GeoData Policy have a post highlighting a recent talk given by Prof. William Cartwright at the AfricaGEO 2011 conference, which discusses the impact that mashups and crowdsourcing has had on the mapping industry.
For anyone that’s ever wondered how the internet makes its way down under, Google Maps Mania has posted a link to an undersea cable map that shows the world’s undersea communication infrastructure.
The always interesting Vector One asks the question: How are surveyors impacted by changing geospatial technology?
And, finally, the Google Earth Blog has a post drawing attention to Google Earth's latest feature update; mouseover extents for objects. This means you can hover your mouse over, say, a mountain range, and have the extent of that mountain range highlighted. More info over at the original post.
