Category: mapping
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Earthscape 2.0
A couple of weeks ago, I took a look at the iPhone application earthscape, and since then they have upgraded to version 2.0 available on iTunes. They did a lot of nice improvements on the user interface, making it a lot easier to navigate, instead of being spread across several pages, it is all on…
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Earthscape Errors
 I have been playing with earthscape for a while now and I still think it is pretty cool app, but needs some work, and a couple of days ago I talked about these errors, but didn’t have any details. Well I made a trip up to DC and had some issues with the accuracy,…
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GoogleMap Driving Times
I am taking my first road trip since I got the iPhone, and I decided to do a head to head with the google maps app and my Garmim GPSmap 60CSx. The routing in some cases needs some work, or at least a way to change routing preferences, because it pretty much insisted on sending…
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Nottoway Not a River
I am in the middle of re writing the mapping parts of my KayakVB, and even though I have made the decision to go with Google Maps, I still look at the others for reference. While I was looking around, I noticed that the Nottoway River had disappeared, well not really disappeared, I guess omitted…
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Mapping Decisions
My kayaking site KayakVB has been behaving itself for 3 years now, with very little change, and that lack of change is really starting to be apparent. I have decided to essentially do a complete re-write. Probably the most popular section is the launch site section, that details kayak and small boat launch sites in…