Google Earth Project

The task is to create a Google Earth tour (KMZ file) of five locations to tell a story. 
Criteria
Your tour should meet the criteria below as well as include one or more advanced features: 

• 5 cohesive placemarks are in a folder (Lesson 4.2) [5 points]
• Each placemark includes a description of what is interesting about it (Lesson 4.2) [5 points]
• Adjust the snapshot view of each placemark so that the placemarks make visual sense (Lesson 4.2) [5 points]
• At least 2 placemarks include an image or a video (Lesson 4.2) [2 points]
• Share the tour by uploading the kmz file to Google Drive (Lesson 4.4)
• Include one or more advanced feature from the list below: [5 points]
• The tour is narrated (with text or audio) (Lesson 4.3)
• At least one placemark includes a look around (360-degree panorama) (Lesson 4.3)
• A path is included (Lesson 5.1)
• The tour has a nice flow: not choppy, fly through the terrain instead of jumping from place to place (Lesson 4.3)
• A polygon is added (Lesson 5.1)
• The kmz file is embedded in a website
• The default touring settings have been changed
• The tour goes underwater (Lesson 5.3)
• Other media (music, images, audio clips) have been integrated
• Overlays and 3D models have been included
• The tour shows changes over time using historical imagery (Lesson 5.2)
• The tour includes an imported KMZ/KML file
• The tour uses Street View (Lesson 4.1)

and it doesn't work properly on the web page :-( advanced features are not supported

Google Maps Engine assignment

Mapping with Google is offered from June 10 to June 24  through as a self-paced course.
Course won't take much of your time, it's very easy and comprehensive.
Here is the one of assignment where you have to build a map using different sources of data, layers, styling technics, etc.

Glasgow Westend festival

Glasgow WestEnd festival  - Glasgow's biggest festival

and here comes the Venue map.  Loved it from the first sight. Simple yet complete.

Putting Scotland on the map - The Scots who mapped the world

A sneak peak at Bartholomew's map exhibition at Edinburgh. 

I finally had a chance to have a look at the tools which were used to produce maps (some of them DID ring a bell). I've heard about some during my Cartography classes at the uni, but never realized how finicky job is to work with them.

And here is the neighbourhood where I live now. It is south side of Glasgow (still not sure if its Govan or Plantation).  

Related resources worth visiting:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-20617685
http://www.johnbartholomew.com/
http://digital.nls.uk/bartholomew/

InMaps Your professional world. Visualized.

Just found out that LinkedIn has a tool to vizualize network connections.
My map. Deficiency: manual adjustments are not supported. I'd like to explode contacts.

The bigger amount of people connected + the more jobs you had, the more good looking map became. E.g.,

Give it a try.

Hand made for GIS day

Suddenly I came up with Idea to make something funny or at least something uncommon for GISday. Well, I have neither a great mind nor time to do a presentation at my work. So, I've decided to make Cartography/GIS related by my hands.
I've chosen a picture for my 'Pin yourself on the map' badge.

 

while googling  for pins accidentally found nice hand made for GISday. Here are my 10 top findings
#1 Stairs

#2 Jacket 

#3 Cashwallet

#4 Love Map

#5  Christmas Ornaments

#6 Accessories - Earrings & Brangle /Bracelet & Ring

 

#7 Labels & Gift tags & Envelopes & Set of stickers

 

#8 Heart shaped pincushion

#9 A set of two hand-made buttons

 #10 Wrapping paper & Book cover

Reuse! Recycle! Be Creative!

Chernobyl anniversary

25 year ago the bigest technogenic accident in the world had happened in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

Radioactive fallout of Cesium137 after Chernobyl  covered mostly Belorus, Ukraine and Russia.

 

The exclusion zone now is a place for a shor-term tours.

Chernobyl and its influence on today's Ukraine seems to be deeply discovered. Atlas devoted to Chernobyl  illustrating natural and antropogenic  characteristics,radiation pollution of environment   is on sale.

More info about Chernobyl on http://chernobil.info/
www.chernobyl-tour.com
Nice dynamic presentation (russian).