http://blog.makemaps.net Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:51:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Local Historial Society of Nørrebro, Copenhagen, Denmark, has released a map of historical photographs from the neighborhood of Nørrebro. The map is made using the Google Maps API and contains 50+ photos from the 1910s up to the 1970s. The map makes it easy to find interesting photos from the ... http://blog.makemaps.net/2008/historical-street-views-from-noerrebro-copenhagen/ 55.68642770075944 12.557051181793213 At the O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference this week, Google presented yet another feature addition to Google Maps: Street Views (read the Google LatLong blog for the announcement including a video presentation of Street View). Cool features include: interactive pan, zoom and navigation with the use of the mouse and full screen ... http://blog.makemaps.net/2007/google-maps-street-view/ GeoRSS is a nice format for adding location to RSS feeds---and recently Google Maps was extended with GeoRSS capabilities. This blog publishes a GeoRSS feed via the GeoPress plugin (see previous post GeoPress) and to illustrate the capabilites I will tag this post with the location coordinates (latitude,longitude) = 37.87,-122.3, which ... http://blog.makemaps.net/2007/map-your-blog/ 37.871799 -122.256203 Sticker advocating for peaceful coexistence between bikes and cars, the archrivals of traffic: http://blog.makemaps.net/2007/coexist/ It's been a while since previous posts to the blog, because we have been busy getting things done (GTD), amongst a couple of other things. Getting Things Done can be carried out with lo-tech tools like pen and paper as in the case of the Hipster PDA, however yours sincerely has ... http://blog.makemaps.net/2007/getting-things-done-with-tracks/ Installed GeoPress a plugin for WordPress for easy geocoding of blog posts including the display of maps. GeoPress is free/open source software and uses Google Maps as its data source. In its current version (v2.2) GeoPress only supports a single location to be associated to a blog post---but in the ... http://blog.makemaps.net/2006/geopress/ 41.381317 2.174177 Q: What do the following images have in common? A: They were all shown on the front page of the WFMU website -- still our favorite free-form radio station. Every day a new image is featured and they most often relate in some way to music, sound, hearing, art, and technology. ... http://blog.makemaps.net/2006/strange-images/ The concert of this summer is probably going to be the solo concert with Fred Frith, Saturday July 8, 2006 here in Copenhagen. Fred Frith has been performing and composing music in the space between rock and jazz, avantgarde and modern composition for more than 30 years; First in the UK ... http://blog.makemaps.net/2006/fred-frith-solo-concert/ 55.68 12.57 Finally, after months of waiting, almost giving up on the thought of a Linux version of the application that brought maps, satellite images and aerial photographs to the masses, it's here: Google Earth (Release 4 - BETA), now also available for GNU/Linux! Still in beta version, it's a bliss to see ... http://blog.makemaps.net/2006/google-earth-for-linux/ For most operating systems an application exists which displays a world map showing where it's day and night. A quick glimpse on the map lets you know approximately what time of day it is in different places on the Earth, which can be quite useful---especially if you have family or ... http://blog.makemaps.net/2006/new-maps-for-your-world-clock/