In this second article on my recent 3 Peaks challenge I describe the hikes themselves and the transits between the mountains. See Part One for a description of the challenge. My personal times were: Mountain Start Summit reached Back at base Distance Ben Nevis 5pm 7-50pm 10pm 10 miles Scafell Pike 4-30am 6-30am 8-30am 6 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Google Earth/Maps'
3 Peaks Challenge – Part 2: The hikes
August 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Google Earth/Maps, Life, Photography
Flickrvision – A Very Cool Flickr Slideshow
July 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Google Earth/Maps, Photography
Something that caught my eye on the Digital Urban blog was a reference to a fantastic little website applet that shows Flickr slideshows with a difference. Called Flickrvision, it shows a near-realtime view of images being uploaded to the Flickr online album website, overlaid on a map of the world. You can overlay the pictures [...]
Tags: Flickr
More on Google Maps in WordPress
July 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Blogging, Google Earth/Maps
A quick follow up on the post a couple of months ago about my quest to find a simple way of embedding Google Maps in WordPress blogs. Just to recap, the main issue I had was finding a way of embedding custom maps. While I still have yet to find a solution to self-hosted WordPress [...]
Tags: Google maps·Wordpress
Blog makeover
May 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Blogging, Google Earth/Maps, Photography
Just a quick note to describe some recent changes to this site. I’ve changed the template from the attractive but not easily configurable “Feather” theme to Chris Pearson’s “Cutline 3 column” one. The initial advantage of this was it was easy to set up my own header images to be my own photos rather than [...]
Tags: Wordpress
Google maps in WordPress
May 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Google Earth/Maps
I have been creating my own Google maps a lot recently, largely in support of an upcoming attempt at the 3 Peaks 24 hour challenge – hiking up the three highest mountains in the UK all in 24 hours. I’ve got various maps for the three hiking trails, plus a few put together to help [...]
Tags: Google maps·Wordpress
My photos in Google Earth
October 3rd, 2007 · No Comments · Google Earth/Maps, Photography
A few weeks ago I wrote about using Panoramio to publish and view images from around the world in Google Earth and Google Maps. At the time I posted just a single beach scene from Hamilton Island in Australia as a test image and noted that it takes a while for these images to appear [...]
Tags: geotagging·Google maps·travel
Panoramio – See your photos in Google Earth
July 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · Google Earth/Maps, Photography
Something I came across recently was the ability to share your own photos of places around the globe using Google Earth. A Spanish company called Panoramio have created a very easy way of selecting locations on the globe and adding your own pictures. Other users of Google Earth can then see these photos by clicking [...]
Tags: 3D·geotagging·travel
Plotting your GPS tracks in Google Earth
June 26th, 2007 · No Comments · GPS, Google Earth/Maps
As a follow up to my previous post about using Google Maps in conjunction with your own GPS data, you can also do the same thing in Google Earth. Something I missed before was that the same GPSVisualizer site provides the service so that you upload your GPS file, and it generates a Google KMZ [...]
Tags: geotagging·tips·travel
Playtime with Google Maps and GPS
June 26th, 2007 · No Comments · GPS, Google Earth/Maps
I’ve been dabbling with Google Maps recently as I want to download some GPS data from my PDA to visualise and analyse journeys that I have made. I also think Google Maps and its 3D sibling Google Earth are the absolute dogs doodads of applications and so any excuse to play with these was welcome. [...]
Tags: geotagging·Google maps·tips