The best Google Maps hack yet ?

Goggles is a flash based ‘Flight simulator” that lets you fly around Google Maps imagery. Great fun, don’t fly to low, but who knows what licensing issues this throws up 🙂 Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.

Bye-bye Road Atlas !

Silicon.com reports the latest findings from analysts Canalys, who note that sales of GPS navigation systems (Satnavs) have again grown over 100% in the past year, with Tom Tom and Garmin the major players. Doubling market share soon moves a market, so the road atlas may soon go the same way as the eight track …

A new look..

Hope you like the look of the new edparsons.com, based on a WordPress theme designed by Lisa Sabin of the E.Webscapes design studio, it features a Surveyors Compass, an appropriate icon giving the topic of the blog. I just felt like a change !! and had time on my hands awaiting a long flight home …

Directions Magazine Podcast

Jessie and Sue of Very Spatial have some temporary competition in the shape of the Directions Magazine Podcast for the ESRI UC. Their first a review of the Senior Executive Leadership Seminar is a great start. Written and submitted from the Wyndham San Diego Hotel, using a local open wifi network.

3D Speculation…

An interesting post from Tim who is a GeoWeb 2006 in Vancouver. Great new blog by the way.. Tim notes comments from Microsoft about their plans to create 3D city models in a “different” way to Google. Just speculating but maybe the different approach its something to do with the fact that Microsoft also own …