Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Help find Steve Fossett using Google Earth
I think this is a really impressive use of Google Earth and the internet (centred around Amazon's "turk" technology); a massive distributed effort using recent satellite images on both Amazon and linked to Google Earth to find the missing explorer, Steve Fossett.
Basically you log into Amazon using your normal book buying username and password and select which Turk you want to do - the Steve Fossett one is free, but many others you can get paid for. Then you are presented with an example image and the image Amazon want you to check. You simply select "yes" (there is something interesting) or "no" (move along, nothing to see here).
Go to Amazon's Mechanical Turk (www.mturk.com)
Original article on BBC News
Basically you log into Amazon using your normal book buying username and password and select which Turk you want to do - the Steve Fossett one is free, but many others you can get paid for. Then you are presented with an example image and the image Amazon want you to check. You simply select "yes" (there is something interesting) or "no" (move along, nothing to see here).
Go to Amazon's Mechanical Turk (www.mturk.com)
Original article on BBC News
Labels: amazon, computers, coolstuff, earth, google, internet
Thursday, December 28, 2006
British Airways on Google Earth
I thought this was a really novel use of Google Earth, advertising your flights, destinations and affiliate hotels by use of Google Earth. This encourages something I already do - check out your destinations on Google Earth before you go, whilst being able to see car hire locations, hotel locations and flight prices right there within Google Earth!
Find the Google Earth British Airways layer here
Labels: coolstuff, earth, google, travel
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