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In what's becoming quite a popular event, the cruise liner Hurtigruten has been live broadcasting its position as it travels along the coast of Norway. The cruise line has been operating for well over 100 years, and this event has been apparently drawing large crowds at its stops, and is becoming quite the event in Norway.
The site itself is very well built. You can follow of a map of the journey, view various live cameras from the ship, and even view a live 3D model of the ship's location: just click on the 3D tab in the lower right, then click the resulting image.
As pointed out by Google Maps Mania, you can click the red icons on the map to view a replay of that section of the journey. The scenery in Norway is stunning, and this is a great way to view it all.
There are also other elements that can be added to the map, such as Flickr photos, archived video, and the location of other boats in the area. Some of the photographs in there are simply amazing.
Use Junctions to view your social content on a map
Over the years we've seen a few services that help to put your social activities into Google Earth, but none that have done a very effective job of it. That's where Junctions (jnctns.com) comes in, with a very innovative iPhone applications that can help build maps of your social actions.
The service automatically builds "Ex Maps" (experience maps), which are 3D interactive maps of your social activity. Real-world interactions are noted in exMaps as cross-able intersections called "junctions". Users can dynamically browse all content based on location, time and/or people.
For now, the system requires that you use their i Phone applications, but that will be changing in the future. Soon you'll be able to add tweets to it with the Map Hashtag, and they have other plans in mind as well. Personally, I'd love to be able to just feed it my full Twitter and Four Square accounts and let it just parse the data from them. It seems like this is the direction they're heading, so it'll be fun to watch them progress.
The site itself is very well built. You can follow of a map of the journey, view various live cameras from the ship, and even view a live 3D model of the ship's location: just click on the 3D tab in the lower right, then click the resulting image.
As pointed out by Google Maps Mania, you can click the red icons on the map to view a replay of that section of the journey. The scenery in Norway is stunning, and this is a great way to view it all.
There are also other elements that can be added to the map, such as Flickr photos, archived video, and the location of other boats in the area. Some of the photographs in there are simply amazing.
Use Junctions to view your social content on a map
Over the years we've seen a few services that help to put your social activities into Google Earth, but none that have done a very effective job of it. That's where Junctions (jnctns.com) comes in, with a very innovative iPhone applications that can help build maps of your social actions.
The service automatically builds "Ex Maps" (experience maps), which are 3D interactive maps of your social activity. Real-world interactions are noted in exMaps as cross-able intersections called "junctions". Users can dynamically browse all content based on location, time and/or people.
For now, the system requires that you use their i Phone applications, but that will be changing in the future. Soon you'll be able to add tweets to it with the Map Hashtag, and they have other plans in mind as well. Personally, I'd love to be able to just feed it my full Twitter and Four Square accounts and let it just parse the data from them. It seems like this is the direction they're heading, so it'll be fun to watch them progress.
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