Author: Frank
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Central DNS Servers Mapped
Ever wonder where the central, root, base nodes of the Internet are located? Well here’s a map to help you out! At this scale, there looks like there’s only 7, […]
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LAPD Get their Spidey Tracer!
If you read the blog regularly, you’ll know my facination with the “Spidey Tracer”. (in truth, I’m facinated with all super gadgets… Batman is my hero!) Now the LAPD will […]
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Mark Up Your Google Maps
Quickmaps is a beta site that allows you to draw on your googlemaps. You can drag and drop a bunch of different markers, add a text label, or even draw […]
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general, Navigation, WebMapping
Watch Boats In Real Time
This site, although still in beta, shows boat traffic in the San Francisco bay in real time. You can see different boats and ships move around the bay over the […]
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Alternative Energy Around the World
It’s a flash map, but it’s still pretty cool. Ever wonder where all the alternative energy is being produced in the world? Well now you can find out! This site […]
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general, Hardware, VirtualEnvironments
Table top control of 3D space
A Phd student at the University of Calgary’s Interactions Laboratory has come up with some pretty cool new interactive tools for Google Earth and Warcraft III (not at the same […]
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Hurricane Simulator
For people in the interior of countries, the difference between a category 2 hurricane and a category 3 hurricane might not be all that aparent. That’s why the good people […]
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See Inside Storms
With Hurricane season begun here in the US and the after effects of Katrina still being felt, Live Science is reporting a pretty cool new technology. A new radar satellite […]
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general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing, WebMapping
Google Maps of Active Volcanoes
If you’re like me, when you go to plan your summer vacation, weird questions like, “Is there a major earthquake fault or active volcano in the area?” will eventually come […]
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Wiki + Google Maps = WikiMapia!
Here’s a cool project – make a google map that allows people to tag anything on the face of the planet and write stuff about it. All you do is […]
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