Tag Archives: Location

Google Sightseeing

5/11/2005 – 5:01 pm

Google Sightseeing is an index of interesting sites (sights?) around the world, as seen by the satellites that Google Maps uses. For example, places like The Grand Canyon, Niagra Falls, or the St. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Geolocation, Maps | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (4)

Mobile Wireless

4/22/2005 – 2:07 pm

Have you ever wished that you could have your own wireless network available, wherever you go? How about a mobile wireless access point, GPS tracking, and a webcam in your car? Would that do the trick?

The EVDO StompBox Project is just such a beast. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Electronics, Geolocation, Hardware, Maps, Mobile, Software, Tech | Also tagged , , | Comments (2)

The World

2/21/2005 – 8:46 pm
The World

The World

If I had a gazillion squared dollars, I’d want to buy a piece of The World. [...]

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Google Maps Dissected

2/9/2005 – 4:06 pm

Joel Webber has an excellent dissection of how Google Maps works under the hood in his Mapping Google article. Welcome to my blogroll.

Highlights:

  • Communication with the backend server is done with a hidden <iframe> and some javascript trickery (not with XMLHttpRequest, as Gmail uses).
  • Data arrives from the server in XML and is transformed into HTML by client-side XSLT. [...]

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GeoURL Reloaded

2/6/2005 – 2:59 pm

I just learned about the return of the GeoURL service. Actually, it doesn’t appear to be a re-launch so much as a re-implementation, according to what I read over on Daniel Schaller’s site. [...]

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