Archive for May, 2008
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Concharto now allows you to easily add and delete points from any place on a line or shape.
* To add a point, simply drag one of the "shadow" squares that you see in between the solid white squares.
* To delete a point, simply click on it.
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
A few new features went live this weekend:
1. Export to Google Earth. In the search results there is a new kml link on the upper left. If you have a virtual globe browser like Google Earth or MS Virtual Earth, you can now use this link to import ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
A few improvements to the search results page have gone live this week.
You can now hide the timeline sidebar to show more of the map. Just click "hide sidebar" near the upper left of the page. To show the side bar again, click "show".
The timeline is now hidden, so ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
I periodically get comments like this one from a Wikipedian whom I respect, "... how would one accommodate changes in geography and man-made features as you go back in time?"
The frivolous answer is "we don't do that." Accommodating changes in geography, including cityscapes, roads and terrain, is the domain of ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
I'm happy to report that I'll be demonstrating Concharto at this year's Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco on May 12. My presentation is "How to Make a Geographic Wiki." I'll use events and timelines from the map to illustrate all the important features of Concharto.
I'll definitely ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Here is an event I would have never considered doing, but it just awesome. The author has created a timeline of The Play, the famous game winning play between Stanford and University of California, Berkeley, November 20, 1982. With four seconds left in the game, the Golden Bears ...
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