Mapping Hacks

Go to phorum board goosh.org is cool! It gives your browser a command line complete with command history, and you get a scrollback.
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 larger than thumbnail map. […]

“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 […]

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 […]