Category Archives: Maps and Mapping

One thing Google Maps still can’t do

I bike.  Therefore, I am… not a user of google maps to navigate my native city of Amsterdam.    Sure, it will plot directions just fine.  But will it plot that route via the the street with the best bikepaths or know to take a shortcut through the park? No. Google Maps is for cars.   …

April 7, 2009 – 6:28 am | By Brian Fitzgerald | Posted in Amsterdam, Bicycles, Maps and Mapping | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

David Tryse’s Google Earth Layers

Juliette, our superactivist turned forum moderator turned intern at the Greenpeace secret mountain laboratory, found these absolutely astounding Google Earth layers by David Tryse. I’ve seen a lot of data visualization in Google Earth, but these maps of forest destruction, oil spills, biodiversity hotspots, and more are simply some of the best stuff I’ve seen. If …

June 19, 2008 – 7:00 am | By Brian Fitzgerald | Posted in Activism, Maps and Mapping | Comments (0)

Google Earth Outreach

I’m in Hamburg for the launch of a new Greenpeace information layer as part of the Google Earth Outreach program. Rebecca Moore is presenting — she was among the folks who started the program last year in the US as a means to get non-profits, charities, and environmental groups using the Google Earth platform to …

April 3, 2008 – 10:51 am | By Brian Fitzgerald | Posted in Activism, Environmental Issues, Greenpeace, Maps and Mapping | Comments (2)

Google My Maps into your own page

I’ve been doing a bit of sleuthing into my Irish Grandfather’s past of late. I had a collection of addresses in New York City where he lived, and I put them on a Google “My Map.” Here’s a step by step guide to using this great little tool for taking that map and embedding it …

June 3, 2007 – 8:15 am | By Brian Fitzgerald | Posted in Maps and Mapping | Comments (0)

How to geotag and map the work of the prophetic lyricist poet graffiti artist of Amsterdam

I went hunting on my bicycle the other day. Armed with only my Sony P900 cellphone and its rather silly built in camera, I was on the trail of Laser 3.14. Anyone who lives in Amsterdam has seen his work. “Nimrod Built Babel“ “A woman should bloom“ “Naked and pure is the spirit that transcends the existence …

July 12, 2006 – 3:59 am | By Brian Fitzgerald | Posted in Activism, Maps and Mapping, Photography, Uncategorized | Comments (3)

How to Geotag any webpage in three steps

There’s a new little gizmo in my sidebar today: Which gives you a glimpse of websites and blogs which are physically located near the worldwide headquarters of Brian-Fitzgerald.net here in Amsterdam. (Gillo’s blog is right around the corner). Here’s how to roll your own: 1) Get your latitude and longitude coördinate by clicking on your location …

June 7, 2006 – 3:55 am | By Brian Fitzgerald | Posted in Maps and Mapping, Uncategorized, Webdesign | Comments (2)