Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Google comes down to earth, down under!
Having not yet ceased to marvel at the wonders of the satellite imagery in Google Earth, now at last Google Maps comes down to earth, in NZ (I know those of you in the North have had this for yonks), with Street View. The idea is cause to marvel. For some of us the result is more of a curate's egg. Here is the best result for our home on Street View:
Yes, we are the house behind the trees, down the drive, beside all the mailboxes, you can't miss us!
Well, that was not a lot of help... so here's the bach:
Again, we are the house behind the vegetation, but this time you can see a bit of us, and a great shot of the neighbour's car ;)
However, I've saved the best till last, here is Carey:
I'm not sure what Google's millions have bought us, but frankly I'll return to those beautiful and useful satellite shots. Street View is not getting a slot on my Bookmarks Toolbar :(
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Yes, we are the house behind the trees, down the drive, beside all the mailboxes, you can't miss us!Well, that was not a lot of help... so here's the bach:
Again, we are the house behind the vegetation, but this time you can see a bit of us, and a great shot of the neighbour's car ;)However, I've saved the best till last, here is Carey:
I'm not sure what Google's millions have bought us, but frankly I'll return to those beautiful and useful satellite shots. Street View is not getting a slot on my Bookmarks Toolbar :(
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Saturday, November 22, 2008
Panoramio
I've been uploading photos to Panoramio, it makes a change from marking ;) Besides Panoramio is a great tool, you can geocode your photos, so that they are associated with the place you took them, and some get selected for display on Google Earth. This means that increasingly now I can find Creative Commons licenced photos of places, just by "going" there in Google, and clicking on the little square boxes that indicate a view... The photos I've uploaded have mainly been 
My collection is at http://www.panoramio.com/user/1721793 next I'll have to organise them better with tags... ;)
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I've been uploading photos to Panoramio, it makes a change from marking ;) Besides Panoramio is a great tool, you can geocode your photos, so that they are associated with the place you took them, and some get selected for display on Google Earth. This means that increasingly now I can find Creative Commons licenced photos of places, just by "going" there in Google, and clicking on the little square boxes that indicate a view... The photos I've uploaded have mainly been - Archaeological sites in Israel
- Like the olive press at Hazor (above top)
- or our South Island trip
- like this moody glacial valley
- or these pebbles at Birdlings Flat (below)
My collection is at http://www.panoramio.com/user/1721793 next I'll have to organise them better with tags... ;)
Labels: geography, internet, photo
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I've also been working with Panoramio. I've been trying to use it on our Mozambique site and haven't found an easy way to embed the maps.
There is this info: http://www.panoramio.com/blog/embedding-panoramio/
But I'm still not getting it to work. I guess we'll go without maps for now...
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David Ker, at
November 25, 2008 9:34 AM
No, it does not seem easy to get it working, but it would be cool... maybe we should go over to his blog and ask for help...
By Tim, at
November 25, 2008 12:43 PM
