Jul 01
If you’ve always fancied mapping out an obscure part of the globe, it could be your lucky day: you can now apply to use Google’s Street View backpack.
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Jun 28
Twitter never tires of finding clever new ways to show off its mountains of tweets, it’s going literal with actual mountains of tweets. Twitter’s in-house data visualization scientist Nicolas Belmonte put together these new, interactive, topographical maps of tweet history, and the result is a digital mountain range like you’ve never seen.
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Jun 28
The Google Street View Trekker backpack is at it again, and this time it visited the abandoned Hashima Island, or more well-known as “Dead Island” or “Dead City” from the most recent James Bond film Skyfall. In the movie, the island serves as the cyberterrorists headquarters, but it’s actually a real place and now we
Jun 28
If this view looks familiar, it’s because it was the inspiration for the Javier Bardem’s cyberterrorist HQ in Skyfall. Now, you can explore the real-life island on Street View.
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Jun 27
What happens when you take 200 Lumia 820s and pin them to a wall? You get a 12,000 x 6,400-pixel display, natch. This week at Build 2013 in San Francisco, Nokia and Microsoft teamed up to show this tiled monitor made of identical phones each running the same custom-built app. A master handset is used to control what’s on the wall by communicating with each phone over WiFi (IP multicast). One demo was showing a massive animated grid of live tiles representing a selection of apps from the Windows Phone store. In another demo, the wall was displaying Bing Maps (using Here data) and being controlled interactively by the master handset. Take a look at our gallery below.
Gallery: The Lumia wall at Build 2013
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Microsoft, Nokia
Jun 27
This map may look like a fairly reasonable representation of the world—but that’s all the more impressive when you realise it’s actually made up of microscopic cells from parts of the body that cause problems for people who live in each country.
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Jun 26
Instead of using your typical cartography methods of mapping the world, James Davenport created a world map using just airports, runways and helicopter pads. That way you can see which countries are dotted and outlined with airports (hint: it’s the rich ones) and which countries just disappear into the vapor (hint: it’s the poor ones).
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Jun 26
Google refreshes Maps and Earth with 800,000 megapixels of new satellite imagery
Posted in: Today's Chili
It’s not easy being a satellite; permanent imaging gear becomes outdated mere months after launch, and Mother Nature is constantly caught photobombing close-ups, throwing naughty clouds between a lens and the shot. All that makes for some pretty inconsistent online viewing. Fortunately, Google’s stepped in to set things straight, combining the magic of photo stitching with the capture power of a brand-spanking-new Landsat 8. The result is a cloud-free planet, enabling millions of web-equipped “explorers” to realize improved aerial views as seen from 438 miles above sea level. It’s pretty spectacular, and it’s about friggin’ time.
Filed under: GPS, Internet, Google
Source: Google Maps
Jun 26
We didn’t exactly get the most in-depth look at it, but Microsoft has just teased a few new features that you’ll be able to find in the new Windows 8.1 Maps app. That includes 3D imagery that’ll allow for more realistic virtual flyovers of cities (no word on specific cities that will be covered, though), as well as what looks to be a slew of additional information about cities and buildings that will be built into the app — letting you ask questions like “Who is the architect?,” for instance. You can get a quick taste of what that will look like in the gallery below.
Gallery: Windows 8.1 Maps
Jun 26
Google Earth may give us a real, live view of what our blue marble actually looks like, but even reality could stand to be improved a bit now and then. So to make sure you get the beautiful summer you deserve—while you’re sitting inside a dark room hunched over your computer screen—Google has taken steps to give you a new view of the world—totally cloud-free.
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