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Cartographic proof that North Korea is bluffing 30 Mar 2013 | 04:53 am
Evan Osnos in the New Yorker today: … [T]he official Korean Central News Agency released an unusually showy photo of Kim huddled with generals over what the caption described as “plans to strike the m...
Three trajectory models of the Chelyabinsk meteoroid compared 9 Mar 2013 | 10:55 pm
I now have three trajectory models of the Chelyabinsk meteoroid to share in Google Earth, from the three teams I am aware of who have published detailed results. The resulting KMZ file comes with a us...
Chelyabinsk meteoroid: Comparing paths with the pros in Google Earth 2 Mar 2013 | 11:33 pm
Two weeks on, Ogle Earth’s Chelyabinsk meteoroid story has led a interesting life. In the first hours after it went live in the early hours CET of Feb 16, it was first tweeted by Bad Astronomy’s Phil ...
Reconstructing the Chelyabinsk meteor’s path, with Google Earth, YouTube and high-school math 16 Feb 2013 | 06:11 am
Like many others, I was absolutely astounded by the meteor strike over Chelyabinsk when I woke on Friday morning. One silver lining to our self-surveilling society is that an event of this magnitude i...
Kashgar’s mystery complex is not complex, and not a mystery 11 Jan 2013 | 03:24 am
Yesterday, Wired’s usually reputable Danger Room blog posted an article on “China’s mystery complex”, titled “What Did Google Earth Spot in the Chinese Desert? Even an Ex-CIA Analyst Isn’t Sure”. But ...
China’s nail houses, in geospatial context 11 Dec 2012 | 01:44 am
China is not the first place to see massive building projects wipe out organic urban geographies, but the scale and pace of the current transformation is unprecedented. Some recent projects have nabbe...
Imagery of sectarian destruction In Burma’s Rakhine state now on Google Earth 27 Oct 2012 | 11:57 pm
In Burma’s Rakhine state, a long-standing sectarian conflict between the Rohingya Muslim minority and the Rakhine Buddhist majority has recently escalated: In the last few days, the western coastal to...
Apple Maps and the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands 25 Sep 2012 | 05:12 am
Much fun has been had at Apple’s expense this past week over the half-baked mapping product it released with iOS 6. The main benefactor has been the Google Maps team, whose painstaking work and years ...
Apple censors iPad Maps app over South Korea 2 Jul 2012 | 08:04 pm
While re-reading my previous post on an iPad today, I discovered some odd behavior on the iPad’s Maps app: When zooming in on satellite imagery of South Korea, the app prevents close zooms in the same...
Constraining online maps: The case of South Korea 2 Jul 2012 | 07:31 am
If you are a web-based service provider and don’t have operations in a specific country, then that country’s laws cannot constrain the services you provide to users there. If Bahrain were to decide it...
