As I may have hinted elsewhere, I shall be in Costa Rica later this week. This is the third year of the "Eco Map Costa Rica" project. My wife runs a Costa Rica ecology field trip for the University of Dallas. Each year students visit and study a rainforest restoration project, and measure the changes year from year. The changes really are quite amazing and best show up in the panoramic photographs that I take.
The class started this morning, and we all fly out early Friday morning. For those who are interested in following the trip, the students will be blogging their experiences at:
EcoMap Costa Rica
The site has various things like reports from previous years, interactive maps, PhotoSynths, and panoramic photographs.
The main map is based on Bing Maps and includes satellite+aerial photography due to the limited nature of online rural Costa Rica map coverage. There's also an older OpenLayers/MapServer version; and I have a Google Maps version under development. The Google Maps version supports multi-touch and works fine on a PC (and on Safari), but at the moment the Google Maps/Safari/iPad combination is buggy and it will quicky hang.
The PhotoSynth was only an experiment last year which I don't plan to repeat this year.
The panoramic photos are much more impressive and use my own panoramic photo viewer which allows you to choose a photo location and then fade from one year's image to another and see the comparison. This is implemented using Silverlight (so you'll need Silverlight 2 if you don't have it installed already).
Richard
The class started this morning, and we all fly out early Friday morning. For those who are interested in following the trip, the students will be blogging their experiences at:
EcoMap Costa Rica
The site has various things like reports from previous years, interactive maps, PhotoSynths, and panoramic photographs.
The main map is based on Bing Maps and includes satellite+aerial photography due to the limited nature of online rural Costa Rica map coverage. There's also an older OpenLayers/MapServer version; and I have a Google Maps version under development. The Google Maps version supports multi-touch and works fine on a PC (and on Safari), but at the moment the Google Maps/Safari/iPad combination is buggy and it will quicky hang.
The PhotoSynth was only an experiment last year which I don't plan to repeat this year.
The panoramic photos are much more impressive and use my own panoramic photo viewer which allows you to choose a photo location and then fade from one year's image to another and see the comparison. This is implemented using Silverlight (so you'll need Silverlight 2 if you don't have it installed already).
Richard