Archive for January 19th, 2007





EPA Posts Data for Use in Google Earth, Maps, and Others

Jan 19th, 2007 | By

The EPA is making a bold and rather inspiring move in making an effort to post their data online for use in Mashups and online Mapping applications. As of Wednesday, they have posted a few hundred of the Superfund sites they have maintained for the last 25 years or so. The article indicates they plan [...]



Google Maps + Oblivion = Internet Mapping Fun

Jan 19th, 2007 | By

Here’s a pretty cool mashup for those gamers out there. For those unaware of the joys of running around a massive virtual world and smacking it’s denizens with a sharp pointy thing, Oblivion is a truly jaw dropping virtual (non-online) fantasy gaming world of massive proportions. You can easily loose days in that world, if [...]



PacketGarden – use your web surfing to grow your own virtual world

Jan 19th, 2007 | By

PacketGarden is a cool application (still in beta) that grows your own virtual world based on your internet activity. PacketGarden uses information about your internet use to generate this private world by taking note of the servers you visit and their geographic location, and how you interact with these sites. For example, uploads generate hills [...]