Minimap for Chrome

I have made a version of Minimap for Google Chrome (well, it is called Minimap, after that there are very few similarities because of the architecture of Chrome).

Eric Zuckerman on streetview privacy

Over alarmist piece on streetview, although he doesn’t actually go on to describe what the (supposed) privacy concens are – at least the post title draws more hits in I guess.

UK Streetview at 95%

Hopefully non teleatlas maps and free Android GPS app for the UK will follow shortly now they have nearly all the road data themselves from all those tracklogs.

Twitter geotagging

Venturebeat on Twitter Geotagging:

Twitter’s current method of geotagging is far from what Twitter needs to be a real player in location.

I agree, although like the growth of twitter itself it is the 3rd party twitter apps that will grow the platform rather than twitter.com

Have solution, need problem.

New release of ArcGIS Explorer, includes analysis gallery and updated basemap gallery, still no mac version in sight.