Melbourne designer Rhett Dashwood has been combing the earth – literally – for landmarks that look like letters.
He’s found the whole alphabet in Victoria (on google earth) – and released them to the world. On his website. And here they are…
Tag: google earth
ABC of geography
Dead pixel society
Did you know: A square 82cm by 82cm will occupy one pixel on google earth at an altitude of 1km.
This square was produced by artist Helmut Smits.
I like. Found here.
That is all.
Atlantisn’t
There’s been oohing and ahhing over the weekend as some Google Earth watchers thought they might have found Atlantis. The blogosphere went crazy over the idea. Chris just posted a link to the googleblog today. Sunken mythical cities don’t really excite me. But this idea from the googleblog does. And google would be one company with the resources to make it happen.
“But we could map the whole ocean using ships. A published U.S. Navy study found that it would take about 200 ship-years, meaning we’d need one ship for 200 years, or 10 ships for 20 years, or 100 ships for two years. It costs about $25,000 per day to operate a ship with the right mapping capability, so 200 ship-years would cost nearly two billion dollars. That may seem like a lot of money, but it’s not that far off from the price tag of, say, a new sports stadium.”
That would be cool. And cheaper than building a real life, working, death star or Enterprise – or whatever was in those links I posted for calculating the cost of unrealistic science fiction technology a few weeks ago.