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 Google Earth, and a the 1:50 000 scale version via WMS only.
Unfortunatly the WMS doesnt play nicely in Google Earth for some reason, so here is a hand tuned Google Earth layer to display the 1:50 000 scale Geological Maps:
Enjoy!
Geograph is steadily amassing a huge amount of data, and due to the fact that we require images to be Creative Commons Licensed, we release the whole Archive under such a licence, for just about any use people can think of.
Now we have always been more that happy to produce and give out bulk dumps on demand to anyone who asks, we provide a live API, and even bittorrent based downloads of the images themselves (although admittedly they are a bit behind schedule!).
So in an effort to make it even quicker to get going on new ideas, we have began to put together a self service bulk data download site. So from the following page you can access MySQL dumps of the whole image database, as well as supplementary data such as extracted terms and words – ideal for making search engines and mashups, of course includes the full geographical locational data of the images.
The only caveat is the data doesn’t include enough info to build a link to the image file on our servers. We are doing this because we don’t want to make it easy for people to spider large quantities of images, however contact us and we will see what we can do… we are normally happy to allow hotlinking of thumbnail images as long as we know about it.
This is only the beginning so let us know about your suggestions!
As the comments on the original post dont seem to work (wp-comments.php returns a empty page) – will try replying via a blog post and see if the trackback is picked up.
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Re 1. Isn’t that what “Elastic IP“s do? – “Virtual IP”s that you can map to which ever instance you like.
Just found this GreaseMonkey script:
Which removes the REALLY annoying redundant tag from when viewing all results from a tag. This has been enough to keep me on the ‘Older Version’ of Google Mail.
Works great in Firefox, now to figure out how to get it working in Chrome (uses as yet unsupported features).
Disclaimer: this post is a rant – turn away now!
I can’t keep quiet about this any longer, its getting me more and more annoyed. Google Maps includes a “Link” function – which creates a link to the current map, which is very useful – particully as the map is estentially ‘ajax’ style, but the parameters are definitly starting to suffer rot and lack of ‘love’ in maintaining them.
For example to just display a simple KML file, you get this corker:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=http:%2F%2Fwww.geograph.org.uk%2Ffeed%2Frecent.kml&g=Any+Street,+London,+UK&ie=UTF8&ll=55.053203,-3.208008&spn=17.762194,33.793945&z=5
There are so many things wrong with this url, its unreal. The first is the source – doesnt do
anything as far as I can see, an empty (but immensely useful) geocode, etc; but somewhat ironically I have HAD to edit the url provided by the function before I was willing to post it here, see that g param – yes that’s my (now made up!) home address.
Yes thats right, if you not careful Google Maps might get you to inadvertently share your home address – seriouslly WTF!
Looking back over the last few posts, it would seem I turning into a Google hater, I certainly seem to be finding more to fault, which seems a change from my previous fanboy antics.
Some things from Google (mainly Geo) roughly over the last year and my reaction: (in no particualr order…)
Good
Bad
Indifferent
… so its not all bad, I guess just getting more worked up about the bad, and don’t really have anything to say about the good.
In an announcement yesterday, Gogle anounced a new website.
OMG!
/background – this post is a bit of light relief after the serious business.
… WorldWide Telescope is out…
Initial reactions, seems quite good, if a little jumpy in controls. And as noted somewhere the 3Dconnextion does work after a fashion but it quickly gets disorientated and needs to be unplugged 
While on a recent trip to the States, took this photo, stiched together from many shots with AutoPan Pro. Traditionally I have provided a GoogleEarth model using DigitalUrban’s panorama object, however this time will simply link to the placemark as provided by Gigapan.org:
View in Google Earth (but requires 4.2+ to take advantage of the PhotoOverlay – in full resolution glory!)
View in a Web Browser (using a flash viewer)
Thanks to Gigapan for providing this really super (and quite fast!) hosting for these high resolution images…
Have how been to the two ‘Geo’ sessions, nothing new to report I don’t think that can’t be got from gearthblog.com and the Google Maps API Group (where I had already heard of these), but anyway a quick round up of the main announcements (in no particular order)
– don’t yet know how flexible the API is tho, or if it even supports UKMore as I find it out (I think I am missing some anyway…), I’ll also verify the facts and flesh out the features with links to more information.
Update: forgot to mention Ed Parsons also used the Geograph Mapplet demo in his Keynote speech this morning. (see previous posts)
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