Tag Archives: maps

Make tracks in Europe

August 18, 2008 – 11:05 pm

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You can use Google maps to plan a car journey, or (still in Beta) a walking journey. Some countries are not as well maintained as others, but you can make plans to travel through rather a few of them… I guess it depends on how close the roads data is to the towns […]

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Viva le tour de France

July 7, 2008 – 6:37 pm

The Lat Lan Google blog describes a few of the highlights of the tour… and some of the new functionality: face blurring, number plate blurring… so no more porno busts?

Today marks the beginning of one of my favorite summer events: the Tour de France. I’m always amazed when I hear about the long, steep climbs […]

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Google streetview

April 24, 2008 – 12:28 pm

Who would have imagined we would have such interactive technologies? Google and other companies are helping create amazing technologies… you can even use streetview to go on a virtual tour.
At the moment you can only browse around cities in the United States, but I am user there will be opportunities to virtual tour the rest […]

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Google street view in NZ soon?

April 22, 2008 – 2:40 pm

I’ve been following the guys over at getStaffed for a while, they have a very cool business idea - launch contractors onto the market skipping the middleman. You earn points for the service, which can be converted into air points or donated to charity. So you can earn more and either feel guilty on your […]

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How to set max height using javascript

August 30, 2007 – 2:39 am

function update() {
var height = 0;
if (sIe()){
height = document.documentElement.clientHeight;
} else {
height = window.innerHeight;
}
div.style.height = (height-20) + “px”;
}

I’ve been trying to snatch this code from somewhere… so I was […]

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