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You’re no one if you’re not on twitter

// October 29th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Blog Stuff, Funnies, Tech

I was listening to the Switched On Podcast (Episode 5) yesterday and heard Ben Walker’s song, “You’re no one if you’re not on twitter“. It’s pretty funny and definitely worth a listen.

Lastly, a quick shoutout to Derek “The Bandit” Richardson and Regardt van der Berg for the Switched on Podcast. Keep it up dudes.

Google Earth vs Yahoo Maps

// October 17th, 2008 // 6 Comments » // General, Tech

Lately I’ve been comparing Aerial Satellite Images from Google Earth and Yahoo! Maps and quite frankly I prefer Google Earth.

Over the last few ~~weeks~~ months I’ve been systematically geotagging my images over at Flickr and have been quite frustrated at the level of detail and how old the maps are (from Yahoo! Maps) in relation to those that I access through Google Earth. For those of you who don’t know yet (hi Mom), you can tag your photos in Flickr, with the latitude and longitude coordinates of where it was taken.

Unfortunately the Yahoo! Maps used in Flickr are quite outdated. To illustrate, note the two screenshots below of the same location (Google Earth left and Yahoo! Maps right). Below, middle you’ll notice the 14th avenue on- and offramp to the N1 Highway in Florida, Roodepoort. To the right of the overpass you should see the MTN Innovation Centre in the Google Earth version vs. nothing on the Yahoo! Maps version. That building has been standing for more than 5 years now.