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Find Nature, etc. with Nature Find

August 7, 2009

The National Wildlife Fund has a new web site that aims to help people who want to get outside and do something, but just don’t know exactly where they should be going. It’s called Nature Find, and it’s a pretty slick search site, integrated with Google Maps. You can set a search radius and look [...]

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iPhone Maps Update

March 18, 2009

Well, we didn’t get terrain view … at least not yet. But the upcoming iPhone software update did provide some potentially exciting news for those who like to take their Jesus Phones onto the trail with them … although we’ll have to rely on other developers to do the heavy lifting. Up until now, applications [...]

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Will the iPhone Update Improve Outdoorsy Uses?

March 16, 2009

Mac Addicts and gadget lovers of all stripes will be glued to their liveblogs tomorrow, as Apple stages an event to unveil the latest operating system version of the iPhone. The blogosphere probably won’t be able to sleep tonight, dreaming of should-already-have-’ems like cut and paste and MMS — or, in some cases, long-shot dreams [...]

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Like-Minded Hiker

January 31, 2008

A nasty strain of the flu wiped out half the floor in my office building this week, myself included, so I haven’t been up to date on the latest developments of our little hiking blogosphere. Rick at BestHike dug up a site called Trailspotting, which has one of the best implementations of in-line Google Maps [...]

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Google Maps Terrain Mode

November 28, 2007

Yesterday, Google pulled back the curtain on Google Maps’ new “Terrain Mode.” It takes everyone’s favorite driving directions / traffic advice / stalking tool and gives it a fresh new layer for us outdoorspeople. Terrain Mode will basically take the underlying topographical data and render a 3-d shaded image that looks pretty dang close to [...]

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