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Tuesday, May 2. 2006
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Elevation Layer on Maps at Ask.com
Searce Engine Watch blog lets us know that Ask.com now hosts elevation shading maps. Are they the first free commercial portal site to do so? The elevation data is from GLCF, USDOC, NOAA, NGDC per the citation. The tab is called "physical" and data is only available at small scale (large area) resolution.
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I didn't pay much attention when Ask.com unveiled its own mapping service a little while back, but now they've done something that no other online mapping service has done yet: they've added a relief map layer: It only works on...
Tracked: May 06, 08:29
My weekly waypoints amalgamation is one of my more time consuming posts, and I'm wondering how useful is is to GPSTracklog readers. Most of my traffic comes from search engines, and they tend to be looking for reviews, so they rarely land on (or even visit) this category. I do enjoy covering these odds and ends, but I'm seriously questioning if it's worth the effort. Anyone care to comment? Would you miss Waypoints if I stopped this weekly linkfest? POIs and waypoints I've updated my Custom POI post, adding a U.S. POI database. Via GPS Lodge. Pocket GPS World covers customizable POI's for TomTom receivers. Coordinates for public toilets in Australia. Maps/software GPSInformation.net reviews new features in USAPhotoMaps. A Groundspeak participant provides a link to a site with free downloads of maps in ozf2, ogf2, jpg and png formats. The OpenStreetMap project just is hosting a map-a-thon this weekend. Geocoding photos GPS Visualizer introduces some new photo geocoding tools. Work for the feds? They've made it easier for you to buy software for geocoding photos. The military and GPS The Pentagon delays GPS upgrades. U.S. Air Force admits to goof; says Internet-based GPS is not possible. Cool maps Thanks to
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