A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
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What’s wrong with this picture? This Google Earth capture is an example of very poor geotagging etiquette. First, the number of images tagged to this specific location is almost unmanageble. Granted, I’m zoomed out quite a bit, but if one zooms in closer, the situation does not improve. All of these images are tagged to … Read More “Geotagging Etiquette” »
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” »
Ever since I read John Boyanoski’s book Ghosts of Upstate South Carolina, I’ve had a little project going on. Little by little, as I’ve had a few minutes in front of the TV, I’ve been creating placemarks for the locations in the book in Google Earth. The project is now finished. Some of the locations … Read More “Hauntings of South Carolina” »
There was terrible news in this morning’s Greenville News. The Map Shop is joining the ever-growing list of downtown business that have closed. The owner has decided to retire from retail, and will focus on creating customized maps for business. Located on Coffee Street since 1982, The Map Shop was one of the first unique … Read More “The Map Shop – RIP” »
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!” »
Friday night we invited Laura’s Techniques students over for pizza. We had about 50 people show up. As many rooms and chairs as we had available, they still wanted to sit on the floor all in one room. Paul pulled out the Magnetix and started making molecular models. Saturday was a gathering of … Read More “Gatherings” »
Mrs. Wright and Amy were having far too much fun, so I had to join in. However, my sickness was brought on my indigestion inducing over-eating, rather than by some bug. I’m sure exhaustion had a part to play in it. Regardless, Boxing Day turned out to be a day of recovery. At some point … Read More “Recovery” »