The applications involving Google Earth are seemingly endless… case in point; Here’s a cool application developed by Google Certified Teacher Jerome Burg – GoogleLitTrips. This clever app is a great way to journey along some of literature’s most classic road trips via Google Earth. See http://www.googlelittrips.org/ – some cool downloads are available including the following trips: Grapes of Wrath, Candide by Voltaire and many more. All trips are categorized according to grade.. this is awesome!!!
Archives for May 24, 2007
Florida DOT GIS Data Pages
This resource from FL DOT has a ton of GIS data available for download. Data are SHP files UTM 17; Datum: NAD 83 – see http://www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/statistics/gis/
Gearing up for another ESRI USer Conference
Wow, time sto start thinking about the annual trek to San Diego – about 3 weeks and counting! Kicking things off (as I do every year) I’ve added a heads-up article on things to do at the conference. Included in this year’s installment are tips, useful things to keep in mind for first time attendees, a few images, loads of pointers to previous year’s coverage, and more. Check it out at http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/11711/ – Exhibiting Companies and presenters… be sure to once again send me details of your plans and what you’ll be showing off this year, include details of special seminars, presentations, parties etc…
Google PhoneBook – The ultimate reverse lookup directory
Interesting watching CNN this morning as they delved deeper into Google and more specifically, the amount of information they way be collecting about you. Of note, your phone number – this is all the more reason to have an unlisted phone number. Big deal you might think… well, give it a try. My home number is unlisted so it doesn’t appear (yet) so I tried banging in the number of a friend… sure enough front and center his name and his wife’s name appears at the top of the page with a listing title “Phonebook results”. Along with it, their address and a hyperlink to a map which pulls a quick google map with an icon showing the location of their home… this has some people really freaked out!
This from Google… Google has added the convenience of US street address and phone number lookup to the information we provide through our search box. You’ll see publicly listed phone numbers and addresses at the top of results pages for searches that contain specific kinds of keywords.
So, what this means is its very easy for anyone to look-up listings for a US residence. Simply add any of the following combinations into the Google search box:
first name (or first initial), last name, city (state is optional)
first name (or first initial), last name, state
first name (or first initial), last name, area code
first name (or first initial), last name, zip code
phone number, including area code
last name, city, state
last name, zip code
There’s no specific link to “The Google PhoneBook” although, you can easily have your residential phone and address information removed from the Google PhoneBook at http://www.google.com/help/pbremoval.html
first name (or first initial), last name, state
first name (or first initial), last name, area code
first name (or first initial), last name, zip code
phone number, including area code
last name, city, state
last name, zip code
There’s no specific link to “The Google PhoneBook” although, you can easily have your residential phone and address information removed from the Google PhoneBook at http://www.google.com/help/pbremoval.html