William M. Hartnett

(Alternate title for this post: When dorks and maps collide.) Below you will find what is probably the second-best map ever made. Harnessing the latest, most advanced computer simulation techniques and mapping technology, it realistically illustrates what an airstrike on the headquarters of a certain Florida newspaper would look like. What prompted me to create [...]

I just started using the Skyfire proxy browser on my Windows Mobile-powered Motorola Q, and I’m so far impressed. If you, too, have been sentenced to a WinMo smartphone, you’ll almost certainly want to sign up for the private beta and have a crack at it. May the dreadful IE Mobile never again defile my [...]

Here’s an incredibly welcome development: Rooftop geocoding for 50 million U.S. addresses was just rolled out in the Google Maps API. Careful readers will recall my colleague Matt’s head-to-head comparison of geocoding accuracy in Google Maps and Virtual Earth, which I wrote about back in January. Briefly, 85 percent of Virtual Earth’s results were closer [...]

There’s some pretty cool stuff in the just-released version 4.3 of Google Earth, just as there were lots of interesting treats rolled out last week in the latest version of Microsoft’s Live Maps and Virtual Earth 3D. Without a doubt, though, my favorite addition to Google Earth is the inclusion of imagery acquisition date. Just [...]

Anyone using WordPress and the daily blog posting feature of del.icio.us notice that the thingy appears to have stopped working in the past week or so? Or is it just me who broked the Internet? Speaking of which, a link courtesy of Matt Wensing: Down for everyone or just me?

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Last week’s imagery update in Google Earth was just rolled out in Google Maps, reports Google Maps Mania. The update includes Martin County, which is the first time in, without exaggeration, 83 years that Google has brought new aerial imagery to my area down in southeast Florida. See the full list of updates at the [...]

That’s the new fella on top of my pile o’ notebooks, making the PCs (one defunct, one semi-defunct, one fully, uh, funct) look bad. Missing from the family portrait is a PowerBook G4, also funct.

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Careful readers will have noticed I have a certain admiration for Microsoft’s Live Search Maps and the broader Virtual Earth platform. Not only is it a worthy competitor to Google Maps, but in some respects it’s a superior product. Mileage may vary depending on your location and needs, but I have crazy love for Virtual [...]

Noted in Will’s jambalaya links: This Jeff Croft link to the new Ellington-based Las Vegas Sun site. Noted in the page source of the new Las Vegas Sun site: A bit of humor. Go to the site and view the source for yourself to share in my amusement, or just mash your mouse here if [...]

Here’s a new year’s treat for the South Florida map geeks: Microsoft has added oblique aerial imagery for all of Palm Beach County to Virtual Earth/Live Maps. That’s over 2,000 square miles, people; Bigger than Rhode Island, and almost as large as Delaware. I’ve been waiting for this since I heard earlier this year that [...]