In which we wish for better maps
Published at 11:11 am on February 4th, 2008
Filed under: Geekery.
Maps are wonderful, lovely artefacts. I love to spread one out and read it like a book, analysing every square. Nowadays, though, I only do it for pleasure. Because, for practical reasons, if I want to plan a route or look somewhere up, it’s usually much much easier to go online for it.
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Keyword noise: Battersby, cartography, Flickr, Google Maps, mapping, maps, Yahoo Maps, Yorkshire.
In which we notice that Google Maps is a step back in time
Published at 5:54 pm on June 15th, 2007
Filed under: Geekery, Linkery.
Google Maps has recently, it seems, spread its high-resolution satellite coverage over much more of the UK than before.* It now covers, for the first time, this part of the world.
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Keyword noise: aerial photos, Google Maps.
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