Tag: Google Earth
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Navigating the history of Norman Creek
While I continue to neglect my own website, I did recently find time to contribute to someone else’s. In collaboration with Trish FitzSimons, who recently produced a wonderful series of short films featured in the Museum of Brisbane’s Navigating Norman Creek exhibit, and with support from the Brisbane City Council’s Community History Grant, I contributed…
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Brisbane,1946… on Google Earth!
As a certain amply-sized entrepreneur of self-branded cleaning products used to say, “I’m excited!” I’m excited because I’ve just made a new gallery featuring aerial imagery from 1946 (the earliest of Brisbane, as far as I know) as you’ve never seen it before: in Google Earth! Even better, you can see the difference between then…
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Detail Plans on Google Earth
Having recently Google-Earthified several historical maps of the Milton Reach and surrounding suburbs, I thought I’d apply the same technique to some of the City Council’s ‘Detail Plans’. These plans were produced prior to sewerage being installed in Brisbane, and they depict the built environment at a much finer spatial scale than the maps I…
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Map Mania!
In several posts and pages now I have used screenshots from Google Earth showing overlays of historical maps, such as the example below. I have found this to be a very useful way to both explore and present these maps, and because Google Earth is freely available, I had also hoped that it would provide…
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Exploring McKellar’s map in Google Earth
The fun with maps continues… As detailed in last week’s post, I have recently been experimenting with ways of importing historical maps into Google Earth, which enables them to be explored from a whole new perspective. I initially did this for three maps, dating from 1843, 1859 and 1864. Today I’ve done the same for…
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Fun with Google Earth
A few weeks back, I posted some images that I put together by combining old maps with recent aerial photographs. Since then, I’ve discovered how to import those same maps into Google Earth. This is really exciting, because it allows you to explore these maps in an interactive way. Instead of being stuck with an…