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Aug 10
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BlinkGeo – Like Digg but GeoSpatial News

By BlinkGeo, Blogging One Comment


BlinkGeo is a user-submitted geospatial news and stories web site. Community driven it is similar in many ways to sites such as Digg and Reddit. A while ago we put up a post entitled To Digg or Not to Digg coming to the conclusion that geospatial and architectural posts were not really suited to such services.

BlinkGeo had however changed all that and despite running for little under a month has become one of a favorites places to browse all the happening’s in the geospatial community with topics ranging from Google Earth to ArcScene, GPS and general CAD.

The site has its own community mascot ‘Blink’ pictured right who is now included in the footer of all our posts.

The process is simple, if you like a post on this blog or any other where you see ‘blink’ then click to assign the post a vote. The more community driven votes a post receives the more it exposure it will get.

So although we decided not to digg, we do intend to blink…

Aug 09
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UpNext – 3D Manhattan (Not MS or Google!)

By 3D Modelling, UpNext 3 Comments


Its hard to get excited nowadays about a new 3D city model that is not either part of Google Earth or Microsoft’s Virtual Earth. In many ways kml has become the standard language for web based 3D. So we were expecting not to be impressed by UpNext a newly launched 3D version of New York running in a web browser via Java.

The emphasis from UpNext is on both search and social networking services via the cityscape – as such its very much local user based – as their tag line explains with ‘What’s UpNext in Your City?’.

The movie below provides a flavour of the model and functionality:

Its refreshing to see a new approach, while navigation is slightly quirky its well worth a look.

Thanks to PSFK.com for the initial article.

UpNext – 3D Manhattan.

Aug 09
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UpNext – 3D Manhattan (Not MS or Google!)

By 3D Modelling, UpNext 3 Comments


Its hard to get excited nowadays about a new 3D city model that is not either part of Google Earth or Microsoft’s Virtual Earth. In many ways kml has become the standard language for web based 3D. So we were expecting not to be impressed by UpNext a newly launched 3D version of New York running in a web browser via Java.

The emphasis from UpNext is on both search and social networking services via the cityscape – as such its very much local user based – as their tag line explains with ‘What’s UpNext in Your City?’.

The movie below provides a flavour of the model and functionality:

Its refreshing to see a new approach, while navigation is slightly quirky its well worth a look.

Thanks to PSFK.com for the initial article.

UpNext – 3D Manhattan.

Aug 09
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Embedding ‘My Maps’ Into Blog Posts – TakItWithMe

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A while ago we did a ‘how to‘ on embedding Google My Maps into blog posts using the script service at My Maps Plus. There is now a second option using the beta map generator from TakItWithMe.

The process is simplicity itself, you merely copy your My Maps URL and paste it into the required entry box on the TakItWithMe site. Once entered you are provided with iframe code to embed in any blog post or web site as per below:

Functionality is maintained within the map – see our ‘Audio and Perception of Urban Space’ by clicking on the video camera icon. There is more info on the video and other examples via our main post on Aural Architecture and Ipod Space.

The benefits of theMyMapsPlus route is the inclusion of sidebar from MyMaps which is admittedly preferable, however for simple ease of use TakItWithMe is well worth a look.

Thanks to the Ogle Earth blog where we first picked this up.

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