The Ordnance Survey released their equivalent to Googlemaps called OpenSpace a while back now and I’ve been experimenting with it. I love having access to the high quality maps produced by the OS, other offerings such as Googlemaps and OpenStreetMap are simply not a match for the cartographic output of the OS. Having said this, there is still much room for improvement on the technical side of things: Based on OpenLayers, the OS OpenSpace platform is far from easy to get to grips compared to eg the Googlemaps API with simple tasks such as adding GeoRSS feeds and KML layers proving rather tricky let alone including external base layers. And the help and support is rather poor with few examples and much of the forum activity on the part of the OS team being far from explanatory. But still, as we start to see editing tools capable of working with these Javascript APIs, things should improve; I for one am looking forward to this!
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Avebury panoramas
A while back i produced a series of panoramic images around the Avebury landscape as a means of presenting various views. These have languished in my archives for quite a while but some of them now have a new lease of life. They are showing their age a bit, having been created using photographs taken on an early Agfa digital camera using software that is no longer available, but are still quite interesting. My intention is to revisit some or all of these at some point but in the meantime, they are presented on my research pages. Unfortunately, not all of them could be migrated at the present time but I will have another look at the broken ones and hopefully get them posted sometime soon.
If you like these Avebury panoramas, do also check out Pete Glastonbury’s website where he has more from around Avebury also Stonehenge. Continue reading
Posted in Archaeological Computing, Archaeology, photography, Research interests
Tagged Avebury, panorama, photograph, QTVR, quicktime, research, Zoomify
Beatbox magic
Came across this video on YouTube, some amazing beatboxing, including ‘fluteboxing’ a specialism pioneered by Nathan ‘flutebox’ Lee and also featuring Beardyman, possibly the best beatboxer ever. Period. Here the two of them are performing together at the Google offices in London last year.
Posted in music
