A ZeeMap allows you to easily map entries on an interactive world map. Entries can be places or people. Create a ZeeMap simply by clicking on the link below, and start adding entries on your ZeeMap.
Weather Bonk allows you to view real-time world-wide weather information, radar, webcams, and historical data on to a google map. You can slide a scrollbar to observe historical weather information to predict what climate to expect for a given month. Program exports data to Google Earth, a 3D satellite imagery viewer.
An unofficial Google Maps blog, tracking the websites, ideas and tools being influenced by Google Maps. & Some cool Map hacks!
gvisit.com is the newest tool to make use of the Google Maps API. It allows bloggers - or anyone with a website - to track the locations of their visitors, and plot the results on a Google Map. It is free (donation driven) and you don’t even need to register an email address.
That script is awesome! i cant wait till i see where my visitors are reading from and then track ‘em down or something and have some pure unfiltered fun but this one has too many ads & the map is not very big. I couldn’t even figure out how to add myself to the map!
This is no invasion of anyone’s privacy. Whenever you visit a website, the server logs your IP. It *has* to, its the only way it knows of sending you the data you requested. Any webmaster for any site you visit only has to look through his logs to see the IP addresses of the people who visited him, at what times, and what files they requested. That’s just the way the web works. The only thing this service does is map those IP’s to an approximate geographical location using GMaps. Which means that the best it can do, without actually going into the ISP and requesting that they turn over their customer records of you, is to show the approximate location of your ISP. That’s all. This is not any infomration that any webmaster would not have been able to get before. The only neat thing about this is that now that information is shown in a nice zoomable map.
GeoTagging is all the rage, but I’m proposing a new “geovlogged” tag for videoblogging. Combine videos with the context of both time and location and view it in both Google Maps and Google Earth.
This is a link to a GoogleMaps image of AMARC in Tucson, AZ. AMARC stores approximately 4,500 military aircraft in a large property belonging to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
Just because they are there, does not mean they don’t get used. U.S. makes a very nice profit from selling refurbed/stored planes..also very handy to nab spare parts from. history channel documentary about this not too long ago… But Using Google Canada to look at a United States Air Force base? Priceless.
Do you really think the NSA would allow Google to show planes that a well-placed bomb would disrupt National Security? That picture is probably years old and insignificant at best. If the military is letting you see that, think of what they are still hiding from you…
Looks like mostly F-4E Phantoms with the smaller ones and I think I saw some older B-52’s there. These COULD be used if refurbished. Just in case we have an issue with F/A-18’s. AMARC is a facility that breaks down old planes and resells the parts both to the U.S. military, to foreign allies, and commercial venues.
What you are all looking at is referred to as the “bone yard”. It is were the military keeps stocks its surplus of airplanes. Because of the location’s temperature and humidity it is ideal for storing planes for a long period of time. The process is done by first removing all of the electronics, avionics, and hydraulic fluids, then the planes are applied with spray-on latex. Cheaper to store them then to keep them in inactive service. There is a wide variety of planes at the bone yard, ranging from vintage WWII fighters and bombers to today’s top of the line F-16 Falcons or B-52 Stratofortresses. What happens is all that any time a plane needs to be repaired, replaced, or retired, they go to the bone yard. In some cases you will see entire planes cut straight in half, just for certain parts.The older outdated planes such as a Korean War fighter F-86 Saber can be bought by civilians because it is outdated and no longer used. Countries interested in adding on to their air force will contract and buy more advanced planes from the United States. For example, the F-4 Tigershark, F-4 Phantom, and F-16 Falcon are very popular, and cheap, effective planes to sell to other countries. However the planes stored at the bone yard are also the US Air Force’s “emergency stash” sorta speak. In less than three days those planes can be made combat ready. A lot of those planes are probably newer than the commercial jet fleets we fly on today.
ve.msn.com, has closer views. Here’s another really good photo.. They are in storage in case they should ever need to be used. The pictures are amazing but you should see them in person, its amazing.
There was just a History Channel show about this place. A good portion of those planes can be put back into service rather quickly. The rest are kept for spare parts for planes that are out in service. It was a very cool History channel special but I can’t think of the name. Something with “Boneyard” in it. Also check out Google Sightseeing.
Lots of cool things you can see from space. There’s a whole section for aircraft. Oh, and search for Area 51, it’s not really much to look at but you can see where they tested nuclear weapons nearby. Also, check out the images of planes IN FLIGHT.
It’s not about “wasting money” on planes. It’s about having them. Governments play games like this, where they pack their pants with as many socks as possible, and then soundly strut in front of each other to see who’s really in control. I think the country that has 4500 planes ready to go and fight WWIII is in the best position.
See the final resting places of the US’s Fleet of Blackbirds. Brilliant stories to read here about the testing of the SR’s, and the fates of many of the planes. Those jets were just too cool for words..
I like this excerpt from their wikipedia entry: “The aircraft flew so fast and so high that if the pilot detected a surface-to-air missile had been launched, the standard evasive action was to simply accelerate. No SR-71 has ever been shot down.”
That thing can still kick every other planes ass in the speed department. A great piece of engineering. To think that they created the first one in the 60’s is unbelieveable.
A source from Boeing Museum in Seattle (weird city) informed that they leaked while on the ground, due to the spaces inbetween the titanium. The titanium got so hot in flight they had to make room for expansion. Pretty nuts, especially for being 40 years old. Makes you wonder what’s up there now.
NASA research brought four of them out of retirement recently. I’m pretty impressed with the level of biographical information provided for each plane. Especially The Lost Blackbirds catagory.
Here’s a haunting Gmaps hack:”The High Yeild Detonation Effects simulator maps overpressure radii generated by a ground-level detonation; these radii are an indicator of structural damage to buildings.”
Insert an IP and find out where it’s from via google maps. There is another version but it is still buggy.
For the first link, It points to my location but the second one still lingers over the States.
Yes I know this is yet another post relating to Google Maps but then the feature is excellent for travellers looking for a free wifi spot. Hmm… kind of hard to use this service to find free service when you don’t have service in the first place.
