A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
If you can bear with me until I get through next week’s workshops I’m going for SCETV, I’ll get off of this Google Earth/geotagging kick. I promise. Until then, here are a couple more Google Earth resources I stumbled upon while preparing my materials for these workshops. First, when one thinks of geotagging, it’s usually … Read More “Recent Google Earth Discoveries” »
I like the little "It happened here" maps that I can create at the bottom of these posts. However, they only allow the tagging of one location. This is OK if that post is about only one place, such as a restaurant, but it causes problems when I want to mark multiple locations. I’ve been … Read More “From Earth to Maps – Tracking Your Travels” »
If you take a look at the sidebar under "Pages", you’ll see a new link for Widgets and Maps. These are services that have been linked into my site through Widgetbox. Widgetbox is basically a clearinghouse of blog applications. You can get everything from Flickr interfaces to news RSS feeds delivered to your site. It … Read More “Widgets and Maps” »
Anyone who has been following this blog knows that one of my favorite past times is to head out into the country with my camera and just explore. I enjoy not just the exploration, but the documentation of exploration, either by writing about it here, keeping a GPS track, or by geotagging the photos I … Read More “Geotagging Made Simple” »
Hold your mouse over any of the links on this site. Notice anything? For any link that leads away from this site, you now get a preview of that webpage in snapshot format. This new feature is a free service from Snap.com. Firefox offers the same functionality for any website through the Cooliris add-on. I … Read More “Snap Decisions and Other Discoveries” »
One of my tech folks called this morning with a concern about Google Earth. It seems there was a placemark entitled "Can’t fucking get there from here." The tech wanted to know if a student at the school might have been able to create that placemark for the entire school, since it seemed to be … Read More “The Perils of Web 2.0” »
Laura sent me a very nice e-card from Hallmark. While she was searching for the card I got, she came across something rather…disturbing. Apparently there are e-cards for proposing. I guess if you can’t work up the nerve to ask, this would be one way to do it.
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ~Henry Steele Commager I am a government censor. I am responsible for blocking certain images and ideas that might be deemed harmful to our students. I do this … Read More “Censorship” »
Back last summer I wrote an article on this site complaining about triple tags and the clutter they create on tag clouds. The idea was that a tag cloud is meant to group items with similar characteristics. However, triple tags are meant to identify a specific item. They are often called "machine-readable" because they are … Read More “Flickr’s Machine Tags” »
On October 3 Google Earth released a massive imagery update. Until that point, most of South Carolina was in low resolution. The new release provided much higher resolution images for almost all of the state. Almost all, that is. Right after the update there was a very blurry section right where the town of Casey, … Read More “Columbia is Back!” »