Using Terraserver…
Dan bookmarked this site on how to use the Terraserver so he could remember it later, so I’m doing the same. Other things of interest are Jef P’s Acme Mapper, now with color images.
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Fun with the Terraserver
Okay, it’s nothing really innovative. Jef Poskanzer was the first guy I know who did it. Then my friend Jeff Eaton did it. Now I’ve done it: write a program to loot images of of Microsoft’s TerraServer. Basically I wrote a simple Python script that when given a latitude/longitude in the US, constructs an html […]
Maps for ipod, the Juan Buhler way…
Juan Buhler (former SIGGRAPH sketch chair, current Pixarian, and cool street photographer) sent me a link to his cool idea for using the video ipod to store maps. He realized that the thumbnail viewer in his iPod video displays six thumbnails in each row of his video iPod, so he stitched together a map of […]
More Fun with Google Maps
Just some random links: The Statue of Liberty Former site of the Twin Towers, which are still visible in Terraserver data Bombers at Travis AFB The Chabot Space and Science Center, where I teach telescope making from time to time. The waypoint set by Google isn’t actually the location of the Science Center, it’s down […]
More fun with Google Maps…
Soren Ragsdale added some interesting Google satellite images to the wikipedia, including an overall view of the Kennedy Space Center. Here is a much tighter view of the Vehicle Assembly Building, which is the building where Saturn V rockets were assembled, and now houses space shuttles as they are being fitted for launch. Totally blows […]