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» Go to this postBeach Drive is a picturesque road that winds its way through Rock Creek Park in Washington, DC and the surrounding suburbs. Although called by different names along its various portions, it starts at the base of the Lincoln Monument as Rock Creek Parkway, NW, and ends somewhere in Rockville, MD, possibly at the end of [...]
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Chikai Ohazama of the Google Earth team announced over the weekend that they’ve added (through their Google Web layers interface) photos and Wikipedia content to various locations around the Earth. The way it works is that you browse around with Google Earth, and as you navigate to a location where photos are available, you are [...]
» Go to this post… but forgets Zooomr. In an article published today in the NYT by Ian Austen, various sites like Flickr and others are mentioned prominently with regards to their geotagging capabilities, but the original site to offer photo geotagging, Zooomr, is forgotten.
Geotagging, for those of you unfamiliar with this, is the practice of attaching GPS coordinates [...]
Wired News picked up an interesting article from the Associated Press about the NGA (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency), which describes the purpose and capabilities of this youngest of government intelligence agencies. Its director, Lt. Gen. James Clapper (Ret.) is stepping down next month, and he is proud of the work NGA is doing.
Their capabilities are rumored [...]
From Boing Boing: “Cory Doctorow: American Ethnic Geography uses US census Glenmary Research Center data to draw shaded maps of the US that show which religion’s adherents live where.” Here is the link.
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