Archive for July 2009

Seadragon

Sea dragon has now gone live.  The cool thing is that you can now use DeepZoomPix.com to easily create and host your own deep zoom images.
A while ago I made a rather geeky photo-mosaic of berlin doors a created a deep zoom of this.  So It was pretty easy to do, but yuo did have [...]

Utterly pointless, but rather wonderful

A Morse Code iPhone app that can encode and decode.  Pity no one uses Morse Code any more…

The perfect blog…

For me Diana’s Cafes in Innsbruck is the perfect blog.  It has a simple purpose and theme, it has considered opinions and even has maps.  Oh, and I love cake and coffee!.  Perfect.
Keep it up Diana, you have many more cafes to visit…

Where’s Gary?

I am loving the Where’s Gary map game! 
As mapperz explains:
Walkers Crisps and Multimap have join together to create a fun game. Find Gary three times in a day and you can claim one ‘Gary’s Great Trips’ point.

I have only managed to find him [...]

Tirol Panorama

Doing lunch Tirol style

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Toronto Airport Panorama

Toronto airport waiting to board a delayed Air Canada flight:

(click image for full size version).
Made using Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor (ICE).
In homage to Ed Parson’s more glamorous travel panos!

CC:The Exchange Conference 2009

Today I went on a trip back to my old stomping ground, Ordnance Survey, to present at CC:The Exchange Conference on web mapping APIs and innovation.  This time I used a bit of HTML and a series of demos (rather than the death by ppt experience).  It seemed to work out well, apart from Ordnance [...]

Using Azure for Bing Maps Custom Image Tiles

Soul Solutions have a great blog post on using Azure to store custom image tiles (i.e. with your own data) for overlay on Bing Maps.
A little bit of GIS in the cloud…  Neat…