Mapping Hacks

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Archive for June, 2008

googsh.org - the unofficial google shell

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Go to phorum board goosh.org is cool! It gives your browser a command line complete with command history, and you get a scrollback.
K-Traxx K.C. Milian K.D. Lang
It supports searching wikipedia and google, including images, video, blogs, etc.
It also has a command line map mode. You can type ‘map ‘ and get a bit […]

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What is 2 centimeter imagery? Open Aerial Map and Calculating Field of View

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

“Open Aerial Map is an open collection of aerial photographs, collected into a single coherent view of the world.”
It is run by our good friend Chris Schmidt, and it rocks.
Chris has posted imagery of Where Camp 2008 taken by Pict Earth. Pict Earth is what happens when RC hobbyists become geowankers, or vice […]

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Who has conquered the middle east

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Going through old notes I stumbled on this link to a flash animation of the Middle East, showing the growth and decay of empires over time (link).
“Imperial History of the Middle East: Who has conquered the Middle East over the course of World events. See 5000 years of history in 90 seconds.”
I used to […]

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