Topic: Meta
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. // John F. Kennedy
Site Upgrade
Oct 28, 2007
The NEO Project (NASA Earth Observations) provides an advanced flash interface, map download, analysis features and a full fledged OGC WMS server. The range of available layers are all related to Climate Change and Global Warming.
As a first try ExploreOur ...>>
NASA WMS Server
Oct 3, 2007
While a proper configured WMS server is able to serve tiles off nearly all sizes some clients use an algorythm to stitch tiles with same size together. For example google maps usually request 256x256 px wide tiles.
Using bigger tiles leads to less requests ...>>
Web 2.0
Sep 15, 2007
In the edition of last week the Economist mentioned ExploreOurPla.net :
ExploreOurPla.net brings together thousands of sources of images and data to let users investigate climate change.
The articles describes the new possibilities of combining latest We ...>>
Site Upgrade
Aug 28, 2007
1 liter gasoline/petrol - burnt in a car - emitts about 2.3 kilogramm carbon dioxyde. Diesel even more: 2.6 kg CO2. Only 10 per cent of the fuels energy are effectively used to transport you. The rest is wasted for moving iron , tires and oil.
Of course ca ...>>
Site Upgrade
Aug 5, 2007
The famous mySql database driving this site will be upgraded in the next days to version 5 - same with PHP. There may be some hick-ups. Please be patient - it is worth to wait for the geo extensions and a performance boost.
Just in case you are wondering s ...>>
Fire Extension
Jan 30, 2007
The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) integrates remote sensing and GIS technologies to deliver MODIS active fire locations to natural resource managers and other stakeholders around the World in near real time. With a resolution of 1 squ ...>>
Spam
Jan 4, 2007
It looks like somebody uses @exploreourpla.net as sender address to send bulk mails (spam). The admin mailbox is full of returned to sender mails. Is it that easy to hijack a mail account? Actually I was thinking switching to Google mail for domains is safe.
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Meta
Dec 10, 2006
Since yesterday the OnEarth server of Jet Propulsion Laboratory is not working and the Daily Aqua and Terra satellite photos are not available. Hopefully all technical problems get solved and the archive will be online soon.
However latest level 2 images ...>>
Mousewheel For Opera
Nov 13, 2006
I gave Opera with version 9.02 (Win32) a try as third browser to have a fresh set of cookies and find out the interface looks far better than last version I've seen, two years ago. Lacking a Javascript debugger it is still not a choice for developer, but Expl ...>>
Netvibes Modul
Oct 27, 2006
Quite a lot of AJAX desktops popped up since Web2.0. NetVibes is most flexible, has a mini API and accepts external moduls. First attempts of integrating ExploreOuPla.net as iframe failed, the full screen interface is not optimized for small windows.
But ...>>
Nuclear Power Plants
Oct 21, 2006
At first sight nuclear power plants do not emit carbon dioxide during operation and thus provide a simple solution to avoid Global Warming.
To see no possibilities for nuclear accidents and disasters in next 20,000 years and being unsure about foreseeable ...>>
Site Update
Sep 30, 2006
Google has now indexed more than 10,000 pages of ExploreOurPla.net and offers on-site search results.
Not only to reduce server load I've disabled the internal wordpress search and let now Google do the work. Example: Search results for Tuvalu
Actually ...>>
High Resolution
Sep 16, 2006
Google Satellite database is updated with new highres pictures. Picture shows Woudsend in the Netherlands, which are now completly captured. This is the place I lossed my glasses once into the canal while sailing. (well, no chance to find them now :) ...>>
Geocoding
Sep 7, 2006
The Google Maps geocoding database is updated with street names for Australia and New Zealand. Furthermore most houses in cities are visible.
You may now look for places with a search string like 'sydney upper fort st' or 'the esplanade perth' or 'welling ...>>
Site Update
Sep 7, 2006
I had to change a bit the web structure of ExploreOurPla.net. This will lead to broken links and 404 errors. I'm sorry for any unconvenience. Mainly the GIS pages are now childs of the main GIS page. There is also an upcoming special about tropical storms whic ...>>
Free geoData in Europe
Sep 7, 2006
When you have a closer look into local maps database, you'll find out there is a lack of maps provided by european agencies. Canada, Australia and the U.S.A. released high quality maps into public domain and NASA and USGS deliver a valuable service making ...>>
Wind Directions
Sep 2, 2006
This 'Picture of Day' introduces a new set of time enabled layers. Satellite photo taken by Daily Aqua, 2006-08-31, shows Cat 3 hurricane John touching California, while the Ernesto system is still visible.
The picture is overlayed with surface wind direc ...>>
Youtube Videos
Aug 29, 2006
It is a while ago after last explorer update. Latest multimedia extension was audio from the Freesound Project. I'm interested for a long time in digital video and so videos on the map was in the pipeline from the beginning of this project.
Now here is th ...>>
