Category: Tools
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Potpourri
The virtual file folder is bulging at the seams but none of the topics I’ve collected for today are large enough to merit a standalone article. There should be something for just about everyone here today, something old, something new, something borrowed, something stupid. Haines Shoe House Wouldn’t you visit the Haines Shoe House if…
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Vote For a Geo-Oddity Bear
THE POLLS HAVE CLOSED. WE LOST. CHASKA WON Regular reader “Craig” commented on my recent post, Geo-Oddities Go Hollywood. He was wondering if I was aware that the National Zoo in Washington, DC was considering naming one of its Andean bears after a geo-oddity. I hadn’t known about it so I followed the link that…
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Google Earth Now In Google Maps
I began working on a new article this evening and opened up Google Maps as I frequently do, seeing if I could illustrate the post with a few imbedded images. Imagine my surprise when I saw the “Earth” button among the menu options. I quickly switched over to the Google LatLong blog and confirmed what…
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Revisiting Previous Articles with Street View – UK
I’m still having a great time with the recent major release of Google Street View images for the United Kingdom. It’s like somebody opened a new playground with so many different places for me to travel vicariously. It also offered an opportunity to go back to some of my earlier articles and see if I…
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A Couple of Recent Bloggy Finds
I’ve been getting a few reader referrals over the last couple of days from a blog I’d never seen before. It had a rather intriguing and promising Intertube domain, railmaps.blogspot.com. Naturally I wanted to check it out. The site was kind enough to recommend me to its readers and I hoped to repay the favor.…
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Malware via Google Images
My post today has nothing to do with geography so feel free to come back tomorrow if you like. Rather, I’m passing along something nefarious I ran across on Google Images. This happened as I investigated someone hijacking one of the photos that I display on my website. Take a look at this photograph This…
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Layers of Borderlocking
Is Borderlock (-ed) (-ing) even a word? I don’t think so. “Landlocked” is a perfectly fine word but it doesn’t quite cover the situation I’m attempting to describe. I noticed a query that arrived recently on Twelve Mile Circle from a user of a well-known search engine. It piqued my curiosity. I’ve started many an…
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The Spots Not Covered
I’ve confessed before to my fondness for an old-fashioned newspaper on a Sunday morning, and it’s doubly so when I stumble across an informative map in those ink-stained pages. A map I spied among the folds demanded my full attention, the grandiose centerpiece of a full page advertisement for a mobile phone company. They touted…
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Clustr-ed
You might notice something a little different on the page template of Twelve Mile Circle today. I’ve decided to add a ClustrMap after more soul-searching and internal debate that you might image. You may be wondering why this was a difficult choice. After all, what would be more appropriate for a geo-oddities blog than a…
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Maintenance Update
Recently I mentioned that Google Maps changed the script for embedding Street View images within blogs. Unfortunately it rendered the previous format as useless blank spots on the page. However I’ve uncovered an unexpected silver lining as I’ve reviewed and edited each file. I can now find Street View images that did not exist when…