April Foolery

Apart from some rather obscure industry in-jokes and an atrocious pun, the focus of this year’s geospatial-industry silliness seems to be Google Street View and its impact on privacy. Google Earth Blog announces that the next-generation Street View will include 3D modelling and thermal imaging, while El Reg makes the obvious connection between Street View and Britain’s ubiquitous surveillance cameras. Remember: an April Fool’s gag should be plausible, and satire should have some bite to it. Don’t just be silly.

This, for example? Just silly. But funny. At least be funny.

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Posted on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 11:03 AM
Categories: Censorship, Security & Privacy, Driving Directions, Fun, GIS

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[TypeKey Profile Page] Yvette Hoitink:

I wrote an article on my (Dutch) history of cartography today, informing the readers how the Dutch ordinance survey will start using quadrangulation instead of triangulation. Quadrangulation has the following benefits:
* each point forms a triangle with it’s neighbors forming a triangle with a 90 degree angle. This makes the calculations much easier (Pythagoras)
* a square consists of 4 triangles, making quadrangulation 4 times more accurate than triangulation.
* Because the points lie in a square, they can easily be mapped to GIS and GPS coordinates.

April 1, 2009 at 3:01 PM

[TypeKey Profile Page] Andy Anderson:

I saw this one referenced on CNET:

http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gball/

The gBall, with built-in GPS!

April 2, 2009 at 12:20 PM

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