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Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:58:20 -0700

Microsoft Virtual Earth does oblique imagery (aka Bird's eye view)

For a list of some of the cities available for the bird's eye view,
including Madrid, Copenhagen, and Stockholm,
see the Windows Spaces Live Blog or Mapperz Blog

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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:38:36 -0700

Who would have thought...

(or at least it is pretty darn close)

They were saying this was going to happen,
but it was kind of hard to believe it would considering
the C$ was worth about 40 cents less than the US$
not so long ago.

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Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:07:52 -0700

Embed a Google map in your blog!

Well, at least on any other webpage except SU, apparently :(
Unless someone knows a trick to do it?

On any other webpage, go to the google map of choice, click on "Link to this page", and copy and paste the HTML code into your page. It is just that easy!

Thanks, Mapperz :)

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Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:54:13 -0700

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Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:14:46 -0700

From Natural Resources Canada

Canada's Government Provides Free Online Access to Digital Mapping Data

OTTAWA - Experts and other users of digital topographic data will no longer have to pay to use digital versions of government maps and data. The Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources, today announced that as of April 1, 2007, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) began making its electronic topographic mapping data available to all users free of charge over the Internet.

"Our Government recognizes the importance of providing Canadians with access to the latest digital mapping information at no cost," said Minister Lunn. "Not only will Canadians now have free access to digital maps, but Canada will be known as an important source for digital mapping data around the world."

Topographic data provide information on the location of landscape features - such as lakes, rivers and elevations - and also roads, railways and administrative boundaries. This information is used for many purposes by governments, academia and the private sector to provide valuable maps for Canadians.

The new no-fee access policy applies to data that is solely owned by NRCan. This policy builds on an earlier initiative http://www.GeoBase.ca , which in 2003 provided free access to various co-owned federal, provincial and territorial topographic data. As well as waiving access fees, NRCan is lifting all cost and licence restrictions on the redistribution of the data. This will help ensure that accurate and consistent information is available for users.

NRCan has provided the private sector with access to digital topographic data since the early 1990s. With the ongoing rapid growth of the Internet and the resulting drop in distribution costs, it is appropriate to make public information in digital form available without any restrictions on its use or redistribution. The data collections will be made available through the GeoGratis Web portal http://www.geogratis.gc.ca . Users will need to have a geographic information system or image analysis system and the graphics applications of editing software to view the data.

Note: The free data available includes scanned georeferenced topographic maps as well as raw data

Click here for an explanation of the National Topographic System of Canada (NTS)

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Sun, 01 Apr 2007 07:31:22 -0700

The latest offerings from Google...

GMail Paper and...

Google TiSP
Toilet Internet Service Provider

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Sat, 06 Jan 2007 21:02:35 -0800

Snail mail never ceases to amaze me...

A steelworker lost touch with a former colleague after he moved.
He had an idea of where his friend had relocated to, so he sketched
a map on the envelope with his name and a note, "somewhere here"

It made it there.

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Sun, 03 Dec 2006 08:09:56 -0800

Interesting travel website. Find other travellers, create a blog, post some pictures, and find out more information about other countries from a travelers perspective...

I think I have a bit more traveling to do :)

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Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:20:25 -0800

Many thanks to kiribird2 for the flowers...
...a nice reminder of the colours of spring...just as the daily high temperatures
here are about to fall well below 0 degrees Celcius.
Yes, winter is upon us once again. On the bright side, there is almost enough snow
in the mountains now to go snowshoeing!

(*edit - Nov 27 - the high temperature today was -25 (at least I think it got that warm - haha) :)
and the official start of winter is still 3 weeks away!)

'Bowles Mauve' wallflower (aka Erysimum)

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Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:08:18 -0800

LONDON: A LIFE IN MAPS

Going to be in London?
Check out this exhibition at the British Library (until 4 March 2007)
Free admission

From the page: "Take a look at London as you have never seen it before. This once-in-a-lifetime exhibition brings to life London's lost lanes and landmarks, parks and palaces, riots and railways, towers and temptations.

Maps, views, letters, and ephemera from the British Library collections, show the city's transformation from a Roman outpost to the huge, heaving metropolis of today - and look to the Olympic and post-Olympic future.

In a series of magnificent maps and panoramas, London's growth spreads before you through disease and fire, property booms and commercial expansion, war and comprehensive redevelopment. At the same time lesser-known images will enable you to see why and how these changes happened, and to catch a glimpse of Londoners' lives and values, hopes and fears, preoccupations and aspirations through the ages.

Discover the `lost' Londons you never knew - the great estates and the workhouses, the palaces and prisons, the grand churches and vast dockyards, the ancient villages and vanishing fields."