...and boy are my arms tired. but at least I was able to capture some fabulous DIY aerial imagery along the way. If that isn't funny to you, ...

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It's been a rough month here on Earth as far as natural disasters go between the Cyclone in Myanmar and the earthquake in China this week. On...

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Today Yahoo! Maps releases an expansion to our real-time traffic offering, increasing both coverage and comprehensiveness. In terms of coverage, w...

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Like the London Tube Map, recording and retrieval of locations and their relationships doesn’t always have to do with their Lat/Lon. There ...

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I know there is little news on this page lately - but there is just so much to do But I wanted to share this Yahoo! Answers UK has been awarded No.1 Website Jan...

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A few months back I asked VE blog readers for some advice on my next mobile. After investigating a bunch of phones I finally settled on the AT&a...

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Marie Thirlwall, Product Manager for Microsoft in the UK, sent me some information about MultiMap and how starting today (hopefully by the time...

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For a recent project I was working on, I needed to overlay lines of latitude and longitude on the map. I had a hard time finding some so I cr...

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This weeks episode of CSI featured Photosynth being used to recreate a high school gym in 3d from a set of photos taken by dozens of phone c...

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You may have noticed that many articles in Wikipedia are location specific and the coordinate that ties the article to a place on earth appears in the upper right corner. For instance, have a look at the Wikipedia article for Temple of Concord a...

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