The building appears to have been accessed through an alleyway from College Hill which the red arrow points to, and as far as I can tell by aligning maps, an alley still exists in the same place today (the Buckingham House plaque is on the left of the entrance to the alley): At the ...
And as always, another curious image is found on Google Maps, but very different: a “secret door” was found in Antarctica by Google Maps users! This information appeared on a Reddit profile that published this image and after that, it stirred the imagination of all internet users. Located...
1 Colour-coded world maps. a, Sample size. b, Proportion of city participants. c, Environment effect size computed from a LMM predicting wayfinding performance, with fixed effects for age, gender and education, and random environment slopes clustered by country. The environment effect sizes are ...
The first part of the project was to create a way to download and plot Open Street Map data from either Mapnik or Bing in a local R instance. Before we can do that however, we need to install DeducerSpatial. install.packages(c("Deducer","sp","rgdal","maptools")) install.packages(...
of such a phenomenon, comprising both a range of practices of geographic information production and dissemination by volunteers as well as new forms of geospatial data produced and curated through various interactive online platforms and mobile devices such as OpenStreetMap (OSM) and Google Maps. VGI...
ggmap is an excellent package, and it is somewhat unfortunate that there is a significant duplication of effort between it and OpenStreetMap. That said, there are some differences that may help you decide which to use: Reasons to favor OpenStreetMap: More maps: OpenStreetMap supports more ...
Bold yet subtle: Vasilka Pateras reviews An Embroidery of Old Maps and New by Angela Costi Connections & Shared Histories: Sherryl Clark reviews a ghost gum leans over by Myron Lysenko & In This Part of the World by Kevin Brophy The power to survive & succeed: Beatriz Copello reviews Hop...
The use of 3D maps to plot the presence of underground utility networks and make the planning of streetworks easier was one of the top ideas to emerge from Northumbrian Water Group's (NWG) Innovation festival. NWG's Innovation Festival, held last month at Newcastle Racecourse, was an unique...
Now, what if we want to visualize that dataset on a nice background, from Google Maps, or OpenStreetMaps? The problem here is that locations are in a weird coordinate representation system. So let us use a different dataset. For instance, onRobin Wilson’s blog, one can get datasets in...
In particular, two of these studies [29, 31] validated data within only one local authority (Newcastle and Glasgow respectively), and the third [30] validated data within three local authorities (Northumberland, Sunderland and Durham), but the audits only spanned 6 small sample areas. Given ...