Geoblogging Ireland in extraordinary detail

MapProxy - truly is amazing. I was aware that there were online services available for viewing satellite imagery of urban areas in Ireland for the last few years but not for the whole of the country, or at least not so easily. But this is groundbreaking in my opinion. And its all part of the excellent WorldKit mapping toolkit which we're thinking of using to geographically map classified adverts.

Here's a 10km squared satellite image centered on Newcastlewest in county Limerick. I can actually see the field where my house is situated on the fringes of the photo, and my neighbours fields, and the local by-roads and rivers. Incredible!

For the fun of it I'm going to create a WorldKit map for this blog even though I don't do much moblogging. It would be great to see a more mobile Irish blogger, like Bernie Goldbach for instance, do likewise and geoblog his thoughts and flickr photos while underway in Ireland. Just think, with this quality of satellite imagery we could even map our Irish nature photographs down to the very field where they were snapped.

It will also be interesting to see if we can integrate WorldKit with the IrishBlogs 'group blog' when Technorati eventually introduce RSS feeds for tags. How convenient it would be to scan the latest posts to Irish blogs on a geographical basis.

By the way, if you're looking for your exact lattitude and longtitude coordinates on your journeys around Ireland its hard to beat Multimap.

Comments

[heather]

you mention "map our Irish nature photographs"...

have you seen the donegal hedgerow site? in 2004 it nearly had it's own RSS feed. probably the first hedgerow in the world to have an RSS feed.

http://homepage.eircom.net/~hedgerow2/

now 2005:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~hedgerow7/

[James Corbett]

No, I hadn't seen that but thank you for pointing it out - its absolutely fascinating! How about geotagging it (to within a few miles at least) so we can get an idea where these wonderful photos were taken? This is exactly the kind of thing I had in mind. Thanks.