How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. — Benjamin Disraeli

Posts Tagged ‘map’

hey, there’s google … everybody wave!

today i received my google wave invite. my account is act­ive and i’m cur­rently enjoy­ing look­ing at the wave inter­face. wave is the next leap for­ward in online con­nectiv­ity. it has the abil­ity to mashup email, mes­saging, images, video, maps, etc into one huge con­ver­sa­tion.
whilst wave is still being developed some of the fea­tures aren’t […]

travel diary — day 225

day 221 — when i checked into the hostel (the day before) i got a sydney city map which also had some coupons attached. one of the coupons was for ‘break­fast with the koalas’ at sydney’s wild­life centre. it soun­ded good, but required get­ting up early.
i walked down to darling har­bour and was dis­ap­poin­ted to find […]

travel diary day 17

day 15 (con­tin­ued) — the overnight trip to silig­uri was great. i slept com­fort­ably for most of the trip. 
day 16 - in the morn­ing i woke up because the guy on the bot­tom bunk was talk­ing so loudly. it turns out that he does everything loudly, when i got up an decided to read my book, he […]

travel diary day 13

day 10 — i didn’t wake up early as i had prom­ised myself. i missed the dawn boat ride along the ghats. instead i walked along the ghats for nearly a kilo­meter. the main ghats are manikarnika (burn­ing) ghat, meer ghat, dasaswamedh ghat (the most pop­u­lar) and mun­shi ghat. i didn’t get all the way […]

photo a day #135 — there’s no place like home

geotagging

i’ve got myself a handy little device, a geo­metr gps unit which attaches to my nikon cam­era. the unit locks on to satel­lites and tracks my loc­a­tion. then, when i take a photo, the data is auto­mat­ic­ally added to the exif data.
as a res­ult, i can loc­ate the exact pos­i­tion i was stand­ing when i took […]

the other side

thanks to amer­ican car­toons, i was one of many aus­sie kids who thought that if i tunneled through the earth, i’d come out at china. well, i know that’s not true now … thanks to this use­ful map tun­nel­ing tool. i actu­ally dis­covered that aus­tralia would fit in the north atlantic ocean … and we […]

in focus: geotagging

Although I love shoot­ing in film, there are some def­in­ite advant­ages to digital phở­to­graphy. One of the coolest bene­fits is the abil­ity to geotag pho­tos.
Geotagging is, simply, the abil­ity to add lat­it­ud­inal and lon­git­ud­inal data to a phở­to­graph. This data is usu­ally cap­tured through some kind of GPS device and can be added to the […]

life ‘n stuff

life in korea is a bit of a drag … the weather is about as fickle as the nat­ives. it con­stantly switches between rainy, hot, cold, smoggy, and com­bin­a­tions of the four. yes­ter­day, just to be dif­fer­ent, we had hail. admit­tedly, it was the first hail i’ve seen in korea and the first ever hail […]

world tour

asia -

china– i don’t plan to spend much time in china. i’d prob­ably re-visit import­ant loc­a­tions in beijing for phở­to­graphy — tien­an­men square, for­bid­den city, great wall. china will be the depar­ture or arrival point for the trans-siberian rail­way
hong kong — spend a night or two in hong kong. get out to the small island […]