Tag Archive for 'world'

Simulation of Worldwide Flight Traffic

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joesonic
on October 16, 2008
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This youtube video shows a nice simulation about the worldwide flight traffic.

[via: The Map Room]

Create a 3-dimensional Environment with your Photos

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joesonic
on August 25, 2008
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We explore our surroundings, with every technology we have. From text to audio to maps to photos. Now there is a new technology freely available to represent place - Photosynth. Photosynth comes from Microsoft and you can build up your own 3d environment with your digital camera and the Photosynth software.

This is how it works:

  1. You make a lot of photos of your surrounding with as many overlapping as possible. Walk around and change zoom and angle.
  2. Go to http://www.photosynth.net and download and install the software plugin in your web browser.
  3. The software automatically compares all your photos and finds out how they go together and uploads them to the web.
  4. The result is a 3d virtual representation which can be seen by anyone via the Internet.

The optimistic overall goal of the developers is to create a 3d photo-realistic representation of the whole world.

Still there are some limitations and drawbacks:

  • Creating a good Photosync takes patience and practice.
  • Every spot in the environment has to be included in at least three photos.
  • No Mac version until now.
  • You cannot create a private version of your composed photos.
  • Alternative Quicktime VR (available for years).

[via David Pogue, NYT]

Map about Googles Data Centers

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joesonic
on April 12, 2008
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It’s one of the biggest secrets of Google is about their data centers: Where are these centers and how many centers do Google have all over the world? It’s assumed that all in all an area of an small city will be needed for Googles services - but nobody knows the exact amount. The website “Royal Pingdom” has published a map where the majority of Googles data centers is located.

In this map 36 locations are entered, where centers are assumed. This list is not complete and could also include wrong information. According to this map 19 of 36 centers are located accross the USA, 12 are in Europe, 3 in Asia and 1 in Russia and South Africa. Several additional centers are alleged planned in Taiwan, Malaysia, Lithuania and in South Carolina.

» Map Data Centers
» List Data Centers

[via GWB]

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