The Martian Invasion

No one would have believed in the first years of the twenty first century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than mans… H.G. Wells had it wrong, the invasion of Mars by robots from earth ! Good Luck NASA, JPL and Curiosity the most ambitious landing since Apollo 11, …

Maposaurus how did I miss you !

I can’t believe I had not come across this video before, from a 2007 Superbowl advert from Garmin, the Maposaurus ! Happy Friday everyone !! Written and submitted from the Google Offices, London (51.495N, 0.146W)

Parallax on maps

Once upon a time I was a young teaching assistant teaching Aerial Photography Interpretation,  and one of the aspects that I found difficult to demonstrate was Parallax, the displacement of high features such as towers in photographs. You will see this today when looking at some of the images in Google Earth which have not been corrected to remove the …

NRE App – just wrong !

Today National Rail Enquires have released a free iPhone app for real time train information. Hang-on you may say, I though that app already existed.. well it does ! For the last few years National Rail Enquires (NRE)  have been licensing at some considerable cost it’s information to independent software developers for them to develop their own …

Google Geography Teacher institute coming to Dublin and London..

After successful events in the US two Google Geo Teachers Institutes are to be held on June 13 and 14  in Dublin, and June 20 and 21, 2012 in London. Both events will be held at the local Google office. The two-day events are free and designed to help teachers get the most from Google’s geography-related products and …