jlam | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 18 2008 | geocoded, geotagged, mapping, images, photo, photos, photography, earth imaging, Black Rock City, Burning Man, Flickr, Yahoo
Built on satellite images taken mid-morning either Friday or Saturday 2005 as used in Yahoo base Maps, geocoded photos match only 2005 exactly. See in the satellite orthophotos the Dutch Windmills have already burned—Thursday evening, September 1. In 2006 Black Rock City moved about one kilometer northeast to Special Recreation Permit Site B.
The dilemma then becomes, should placement match geographic coordinates or rough features of the city? Whatever the solution, Yahoo could update the base Map at their choosing and break existing placement for most photos. Currently beyond the capability of Flickr Maps, the solution lays not just in geocoding but also in timecoding each photo and placing it on the correct annual map.
jlam | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 23 2008 | astronomy, mapping, sky survey, Moon, Mars, Google
Google Sky compiles sky surveys from several observatories and renders them in the visible, infrared, and microwave. Like Google Maps, but looking up and not down, Sky uses the Maps code and interface and thus Mercator projection, which cannot project the northern and southern celestial poles. Using 3-dimensional projection, however, desktop app Google Earth can render these maps. http://earth.google.com
Google Sky accepts some Google Earth markup files to present customized data onto the Sky. It can also render the planets, the Moon, and the Sun at their current locations.
Companion sites similarly map and render Moon and Mars surveys.
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