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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 someone [...]

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Google maps in Wordpress

May 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment · 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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.
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