Living five minutes from Southsea beach, it’s impossible to ignore the fact that I’m close to one of the busiest pieces of water in the world. It’s easy to recognize the various ferries but there are always many container ships making their way to Portsmouth or Southampton – it would be great to [...]
Following Google’s improved photos of the University, I waited until today for some good weather so I could take a camera and my Garmin eTrex GPS on a photo tour of the campus. Getting the GPS latitude & longitude metadata into the jpegs was easy using HoudahGeo software but this produces a .kmz file [...]
Following the discovery of updated views of Chichester and the Downs, my next move was to check out Google’s API documentation to see how easy it was to generate maps. Yes, it’s always been possible to cut and paste from Google Maps & Google Earth but to generate an interactive map of a specific [...]
After a previous blog where I shared my misery that Bishop Otter was obscured by fluffy cumulus (cumuli?) when viewed by either Google Earth or Google Maps, I was delighted to see that in the last few days updated views have appeared.
I have also been meaning to post my recent discovery of Flash Earth, a [...]
After my comments last month on the dearth of Mac software involving GPS, I was pleased to discover a package called HoudahGeo that fills a definite gap in the market. Walking in the mountains and taking photographs are two hobbies I like to combine, yet it’s sometimes difficult to remember exactly which unpleasant part of [...]
