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With a new housing estate now built, I assume that the people who live hear are going to start complaining about this 'junkyard'. >_<
Gravitron and Rainbow.
In both of these maps, SF is centred. In the top one, we have Dopplr's default zoom level of 4. Because our gazetteer (Geonames) doesn't have bounding box data, we settled on 4 as a reasonable default.
Happily, Yahoo's new Geo API has bounding boxes included. The lower map is a result of adding this code to the map: pastie.caboo.se/pastes/198743
The code makes a clientside call to the Yahoo Geo API asking for JSON data which it uses to reset the bounding box. The ID 2487956 in the URL used in that code was derived by calling the Flickr API's flickr.places.findByLatLon passing the latitude and longitude from our SF geonames record, at a resolution level of 11 (city).
(Note to all concerned on the Dopplr team: you're right, this makes the super-cute San Francisco pin look silly, and is arguably a loss of context. Good tech demo though, huh?)
Our module for Kinect provides a simple solution for authoring gesture-based applications in Flash. Lately, we've been using it in conjunction with our other free Open Exhibits software modules. While the Kinect device itself doesn't have the necessary precision for use with every module, we have successfully paired it with our gigapixel image viewer, our VR image viewer, and with our Google Maps module.
Our free Kinect module works with Community Core Vision (CCV) software, an open source software package for computer vision. We've used this software in the past with various multitouch tables and other installations. Our Kinect module is a "directshow" source filter, a virtualized webcam device that reads data from the drivers released by OpenKinect.
The Kinect module and the others are all free and open on the Open Exhibits web. The Open Exhibits core software is free for students, educators, nonprofits, and museums. (Commercial users can download a free GestureWorks trial.) Add a $150 Kinect 3D Motion Controller and you have a very cheap and flexible authoring solution.
This is sweet. Today Google maps rolled out streetmaps for most of the EU. Time to crack open the API and create Paris mashups!
Strange markings on the ground. I'm thinking, alien spaceport or a sacred precinct of the Knights Templar.
This maze in the UK was made to celebrate Brunel's 200th birthday. Viewed (upside down!) in Google Maps.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a famous British engineer.
This is "The Great E-Maze".
Newsflash!:
Google today reveals that the Camden Town tube station has been demolished! Google maps employs sophisticated algorithms to analyse web patterns and user behaviour, allowing them to update their maps of the area to reflect reality before the news gets out on any other channels.
Residents and businesses in around Camden are today in a state of denial about the reality of the situation, as this busy transport hub has been removed. The lack of a station at this location will also mean that passengers wishing to to travel to different branches of the northern line will no longer be able to change. Choose your train wisely.
When asked to explain, a TfL spokesman also tried to deny that changes to London transport network had taken place. But there can be no cover-up of this. The truth is right there on google maps!
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But seriously...
This a pretty serious navigational problem. Do you link to google maps when you email a friend with directions? Are you using google maps on your website? If you do this in the Camden area you may not be being as helpful as you thought you were. Maybe it's time to use a better map, the open licensed map from the London-born not-for-profit OpenStreetMap.
I was certain I didn't have a drinking problem in college because all my friends drank more.
Things have changed, but this is how I (vaguely) remember it.
I spent 2 years at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, doing my graduate studies. Looking back I think I must have spent 90 percent of the time in labs and libraries. I had no life besides studying, no car besides Garg's and Puri's, and no money to go out. But I think I had the best time of my life there!