| Power Map: Google Maps for Geeks | Google's recently released Google Maps API allows developers to customize the street map and satellite photo data provided by the service to support custom applications. However, the standard Google Maps interface provides a lowest common denominator interface that doesn't begin to scratch the surface of what the service is capable of. Power Map is an effort to rectify this, by exposing as much of the underlying API as possible via a convenient web interface, as well as adding some neat new features, such as map movement tracking and distance measurement to the Maps interface. Now includes Google Earth support! |
| Power Map: The Lunar Edition | To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned Moon landing on July 20, 1969, Google released Google Moon. It turns out the the Google Maps API is also valid on extraterrestrial bodies, so I've put together a Lunar Edition of the my earth-based Power Map interface linked above. Enjoy! |
| The Mars Exploration Rover Maintenance Manual | I am the creator and maintainer of The MER Manual. It's an ongoing project whose goal is to provide a canonical public reference with detailed information about the engineering and systems aspects of the 2004 Mars Exploration Rovers. |
| Creating pseudo-3D Mars terrain models from 2D terrain imagery | A project to generate 3D terrain maps of Mars using imagery returned by the Mars Exploration Rovers. A combination of autotrace and the dxfel tool below were used to create color 3D AutoCAD DXF models of the terrain, using pseudo-elevation information derived from color within each image. |
| Playing with the Google Maps API | The recently released Google Maps API turns out to be incredibly easy to use, and I've executed a couple of interesting hacks with it, including a large screen version of Google Maps, and a four pane interface for comparative mapping. |
| Legal Ephemera | This is an embryonic project to collect interesting legal ephemera and tidbits (especially technology focused legal items) that I've collected over the years into one place. |
| Creative Commons Launch | On December 16, 2002, I was privileged to attend the launch party for the Creative Commons, and produced a writeup of this rather historic evening. |