Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Football banter through the medium of 3D Mapping

Some Aberdeen fans have been using Google Sketch-up to wind up rival fans in Scotland. By creating quality sketch-ups of scottish grounds with famous scorelines (favouring Aberdeen) posted on the stadium score boards and images of Aberdeen celebrations on the big screens.

Internet pranksters use Google Earth to wind up opposition football fans 

Bringing football rivalry into the GIS arena.  I like it!



Thursday, July 1, 2010


Delicious Links of the day...


Posted: 11 Jun 2010 12:01 AM PDT
Environment Agency Spatial Data Portal Developer page. They have been kind enough to provide some examples of the technology used within their applications



Posted: 15 Apr 2010 03:56 AM PDT
This function uses R to get all or several datasets in some particular "foreign" data format (e.g., SPSS, SAS, etc.), and then writes them back out as text files (or returns a data.frame).