Google Doodle – Kew Gardens
Google today have a Doodle for Kew Gardens’ 250th birthday, and the Queen is paying a visit.
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A ‘lost forest’ – Kew’s discovery in Mozambique, thanks to Google Earth!
Kew botanist Jonathan Timberlake recording vegetation on the steep slopes of Mount Mabu. Photo: Tom Timberlake There’s a nice audio slideshow, with some stunning pictures, now available on the BBC site – Audio slideshow: Discovering a ‘lost forest’. It’s covered in more depth on the Kew site – “Google Earth Read more …
Shedcam – building a new summerhouse
This week sees a week off work building a summerhouse to replace the old shed. It’s a small garden (c. 10m x 5.5m) so the aim is to make it all rather more courtyard-like, with a small circular lawn in the middle. To capture the ‘before, during, and after’ (and Read more …
Titan arum flowers at the Eden Project
The Eden Project has just seen a titan arum flower, and to back it up they have done some nice web coverage including a live webcam and timelapse footage. But looking at Google News it seems that this latest flowering has failed to capture the imagination of the press with Read more …
Google launches Blog Search
I’ve just discovered that Google has launched its own blog search. Not quite sure how they determine what a blog is to get their data, but I gave up worrying when I rather vainly checked and found that catchingtherain was indexed. For a sample search i also had a look Read more …
Geocoding Photos
Is ‘geocoding’ a word? According to this site it is, and who am I to quibble? Geocoding basically means adding location info to image files, which then opens up all sorts of possibilities for mapping, such as in Flickr, which I mentioned just a few days ago. I can’t help Read more …