I have previously written about how to transform a panoramic image into a polar or stereographic image using photoshop or gimp, but the other day I stumbled upon a nice little github project that utilises the panoramic images generated from google streetmap and the webgl transformation capabilities of the newer browsers (I used firefox). The [...]
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Using Google Earth and Garmin Basecamp to plan bike and walking routes
There are a number of resources on the web that allow people to share GPS route information about mountain bike and trekking/walking routes. However, sometimes the route isn’t exactly what you want – perhaps you want to change the start, the end or the length of the route. I regularly download routes from Bikely and [...]
Lhasa, place of the gods
The flight from Beijing to Lhasa was pretty uneventful – thankfully. Upon arrival the usual farce of finding my transfer begins – the only difference here is that I have to get a specific transfer as no independent travel is allowed in Tibet. In order to circumvent the rules and regulations governing independent travel, I [...]
Diving around Moyo Island
A distinct lack of people in the immediate vicinity, Moyo promises some fantastic diving
getting to the top of google
is harder than you think – especially when there’s a bloody company called john mason!…. So far, johnmason is returning a position number 4 and “john mason” is number two on the sponsored links (freebie service from naymz.com) but nowhere on the main list. I’ve just created a couple of subdomains john-mason.badfracture.com and co.uk – [...]
Proof of boarding!
Slainte… I’ve ordered mine in today (guiness that is.!!) and my snowboard bag turns up. Hidden deep in the bag is the proof of some boarding. Luckily, I’d decided to test out my little GPS tracker on the first run (marked in blue) as shown on the google map above. I’ve also estimated where I [...]
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