Maps

You're reading an entry from Google Sightseeing, which is copyright © 2013 Alex Turnbull & James Turnbull and must not be reproduced without permission.

You're reading an entry from Google Sightseeing, which is copyright © 2013 Alex Turnbull & James Turnbull and must not be reproduced without permission.

Today, I'm starting a new blog series written from Foldøy, a tiny island in south west Norway which will be my home for two months. In this first post, I'll show you how to deliver zoomable high-resolution images with Leaflet. I've brought 17 kg of mapping and visualization books to keep me occupied: Zoom in of you want to see the details! You don't really need Leaflet to create images like this, as Zoomify provides both Flash and HTML5 viewers. I'm using Leaflet to create an open source alternative, and to learn more about tiling schemes. The code is available on GitHub as a Leaflet plugin. The Zoomify tile format is similar to popular map tiling schemes. The image is stored like a pyramid of multiple jpeg tiles at different resolutions or zoom levels. The tile size is 256 x 256 px and there are 256 tiles in each folder.

ShotHotspot is a great resource that helps both professional and amateur photographers find great locations to take photos. The application uses data from sites like Flickr and Panoramio to analyse the most photogenic areas. ShotHotspot's Google Maps allows users to scout for locations around any location worldwide. It is possible to narrow down the area of search by drawing the area you are interested on the map. It is also possible to zoom in on a location and update the results shown by selecting the 'Search Visible Area'. You can select any of the hotspots displayed on the map and preview the photo opportunities by viewing photographs of the location taken by other photographers which have been posted to Flickr or Panoramio.

You're reading an entry from Google Sightseeing, which is copyright © 2013 Alex Turnbull & James Turnbull and must not be reproduced without permission.

A la Carte Maps create beautiful paper map guides to locations around the world. The guides are a combination of map, guidebook and art that provide information about cities from a local perspective. If you want to know which cities you can buy an A la Carte Map for then you can check out their 'Destinations' map. The map uses Stamen's watercolor map tiles with the Google Maps API. If you select a city's marker on the map you can click through to view images from the city's map and, if you want to own it, you can place your order.

PlazaScience is a Spanish website that is trying to build a world map of scientific institutions. The project is being developed by Fundación madri + d and is funded by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. The map uses thumbnail photographs of each institution as the map markers. Users can click on the individual photographs to be taken to a dedicated page about the institution, where they can favourite and comment on the selected scientific institution.

Here in the United States, we’re very fortunate that the inability to find water to drink is an extremely rare event for any of our citizens.  Because of the abundance of water in most areas, we can use it for much more than drinking and irrigation. In fact, there is so much water that we use more of it to help with thermoelectric power production than we do for agricultural irrigation. To help operators find additional sources of water for coal-fired power plants, the Office of Fossil Energy (in coordination with various other groups) has put together the Alternative Water Source Information System, a powerful Google Earth-powered app to help find water sources near power plants. In addition to the map itself, there are some search features on the left to help narrow down your area of need.  The data is fairly simple, but their use of Google Earth helps to present it in a excellent manner.  The application was created and hosted by Tulsa-based ALL Consulting LLC, who focus on “energy, water management, earth science, planning, engineering and technology”. (via The Daily Fusion) The post Using Google Earth to find water for power plants appeared first on Google Earth Blog.

You're reading an entry from Google Sightseeing, which is copyright © 2013 Alex Turnbull & James Turnbull and must not be reproduced without permission.

Act on Facts is an Australian Google Map designed to promote renewable energy and highlight renewable energy campaigns and projects. Check out the information windows on this map. If you mouse-over a marker on the map a small window opens, displaying the title of the marker project. If you click on the marker the small window animates into a larger information window, which contains the full details about the project.