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Where in the world are people looking? part 2

Following part 1 yesterday, have now plotted some maps per individual service. Flash Earth Layer Conclusions Google Earth does request a link for the initial view on startup – that point in the...

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Where in Great Britain are people searching?

Nearby Coordinate Converter >>> Following on from the Coverage map for Google Earth Layer usage, remembered I been keeping a log from the Coordinate Converter specifically for mapping (but...

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Towards a standard Geotag Icon?

Just spotted a proposal for a standard icon to represent geotagged content, the homepage is at geotagicons.com, can’t say a big fan of the icon itself, but the idea is great. <OT>Was sort of...

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Geograph: Watching the Fire build

As we near the Million mark on photos uploaded to Geograph British Isles, the coverage is really building up; and the project has definitly matured from just capturing a photo of every square (but...

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Geo Photo Websites

In my travels I’ve come accorss many different photo websites, many of which I would like to explore further but dont have the time at the time. So as somewhere to keep note: Geo Photo Websites Any I...

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Geolocated websites on the go?

Want to quickly access location based websites, while on the go? Then enter: m.nearby.org.uk into your mobile browser. Very privative, only goes to the nearby location links service, and a few pages on...

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Pretty Map!

One of the things we been looking recently on Geograph, is guageing how ‘recent’ our coverage actually is. We impose no restriction on when photos where taken – because historical images are useful –...

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Geograph Images + Google Maps + Geocubes

Quite pleased with the latest update to the Geograph Clusters Map. This displays all geograph images on a interactive draggable Google Map. The clustering is powered by Geocubes . However the most...

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UK Onshore geology maps 1:50 000 scale in Google Earth

The BGS recently publised the Geology of Britain website, which makes available a Geological map of Great Britain online in an interactive Map Viewer. They make available a 1:625 000 scale layer for...

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Preservation of the Google Maps Directory

Recently Google deprecated Mapplets, which are little applications that ran on Google Maps. They have also now removed the Google Maps Directory. However its still possible to run mapplets by a...

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