The Web’s new Math is Geography - joesonic is blogging
Nokia tries to promote their Nokia Maps with a geographical game. It a flash based game where you have to guess the location of different cities around the globe. At the end you can send them their high score and win some prices.
The game might be classified as addictive.
http://www.themapsters.com/index.php
[Flash Required]
OnionMap is a website with interactive and detailed tourist maps of popular cities across the globe. The maps are embedded in flash and provide rich functionality like zoom, pan but also measurement, add attractions to the map and get attributive and textual information about tourist places. The list of cities which are included in this system is quite big, containing, New York, San Francisco, London, Vienna, Bangkok, Tokyo etc. The look and feel is similar to paper tourist maps and are therefore easy to handle.
[via lifehacker.com]
I will introduce a new series of post on my webblog. It is called “Sites I like”. Once a week I’ll introduce interesting sites I visit frequently. Now the first episode.
The website is called the Earth from above and is an archive of over 2000 photos taken from all around the world. They can be downloaded an used for private wallpapers. Photos can be selected by country and each one has a short description also with geographic coordinates.
I’ve already posted that Google together with GeoEye will launch a new Satellite for Google Earth and Google Maps images. The so called “GeoEye-1” satellite will take photos with a resolution of 0.41 cm / pixel. In the following pictures you can see the difference between a image with 100cm/px reolution and a picutre with 41cm/px.
On the GeoEye Website you can watch the lauch of the satellity on video.
Georg Holzer has started his newest project called SiliconAlps.tv. It is a web based video channel, which introduces Carinthian start up companies. Many companies, which were shown so far are coming from the Lakeside Park Klagenfurt, a habitat for small software companies. I’m working at Klagenfurts Lakeside Park and know a lot of the companies and people working there. Video #4 from Liscon is very interesting. From the two guys I should have learned programming, and they are funny and really smart (and by the way Linux fans). I’ll never forget that we have to write Gerhad Schadens exam for “Programming 2″ on a Sunday morning in the mid of the summer holidays - Those were the days… And by the way thank you for your lectures.
(For my english only readers, I’m sorry the embeded video is available in german.)
004 - Liscon from Georg Holzer on Vimeo.
The idea of the video channel is great. I hope a lot of people recognize this portal.
[Link: www.siliconalps.tv]
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