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phlegm

admin — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:39:15 +0000

phlegm.

train stations and house prices

admin — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:33:22 +0000

Great use of data

“We’re house-hunting. And for me, like most coders, house-hunting involves lots and lots and lots of screen-scraping.

As well as crawling Rightmove listings, I’ve been looking at transport and house-price data. [

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those islands near to Europe explained

admin — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:44:38 +0000

The United Kingdom Explained from C. G. P. Grey on Vimeo.

Have some problems with this – not least being Northern Ireland coloured orange

Harry Beck would be proud. ‘Linear diagram’ european travel map.

admin — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:19:57 +0000

Harry Beck’s map continues to inspire.

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GO USA

admin — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:38:03 +0000

The biggest rocket ever to launch from the US West Coast has lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

The 72m-high Delta IV Heavy was carrying a classified satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

The Delta IV Heavy features three core boosters strapped side by side. Each has a Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne-built RS-68 engine.

These motors burn a tonne of propellant every second and produce 2,900 kiloNewtons (650,000lbs) of thrust at lift-off.

Street View used in Game Trailer -Updated

admin — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 11:47:31 +0000

Not as slick as Arcade Fire and HTML5 but shows the merging continues. Does Flash have the scale to compete? The UK online trailer for Sega’s new Vanquish game cleverly uses Google Maps Street View to let viewers see their own houses being attacked.To view the trailer you have to enter a valid UK postcode. If you don’t know any UK postcodes you can try SW1A 0AA, which is the postcode for the Houses of Parliament. The Street View scene comes at the end of the trailer and

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PHOTOS FROM MOEL-DDU

admin — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:58:22 +0000

PHOTOS FROM MOEL-DDU.

Friday Fun with Google Maps

admin — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:27:04 +0000

Paris Peripherique Street View MovieGMapify has created another video using Street View images. This one shows the whole of the Paris Peripherique.

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We no longer go to maps, they come to us

admin — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:45:59 +0000

Goodness knows where all this is leading to. The mapping revolution is barely six years old. What will be on offer 10 years hence? Maybe it will be live satellite imaging, so you can see when a car leaves a parking space in the next road, or try to track down Osama bin Laden from your mobile phone.

The prospect of anyone in the world being able to make their own contribution to a map – thanks to free access to satellite positioning techniques – is awesome, but so is the downside. Some of the fears emerged at a [

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Wired impatient with National Rail Enquiries

admin — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:06:02 +0000

… some dinosaurs flatly refuse to serve the public good. Chief among them is National Rail Enquiries, owned by the Association of Train Operating Companies, which continues to reject calls to open up its feeds — despite collecting huge taxpayer subsidies. When I asked why, a press officer said “it just isn’t practical to make [services] entirely open to developers” as data was constantly being updated and the system would face “extra strain”. Nonsense: it’s simply an excuse to maximise revenues by charging for data that should be freely available. In response, our new “open” prime minister should threaten [

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