The GUI to top all GUIs?
— A desktop application that may well change how we think about cartography.”
If you haven’t yet taken a look at the extraordinary Google Earth, then I suggest you do so.
It’s a web-enabled desktop app that takes Google Maps to another level entirely. And what’s more, the GUI design is surprisingly good for what could have been a potential nightmare.
Yeah, there are a lot dials and gizmos, but you can achieve most of what you need for regular viewing with the two buttons and wheel of the mouse alone.
Running a search query has rarely been so exhilarating.
Finding and visualising a postal address involves racing above the streets of London, swooping from Norman Foster‘s 30 St Mary Axe (aka “The Gherkin”) to the London Eye.
That’s got to be worth the download alone!
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- Originally published: 13 Oct 2010 in Technical
Google stories
Bits and pieces about recent developments in the world of Google.
- Originally published: 17 Feb 2006 in Technology
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- Originally published: 22 Oct 2007 in Technical
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.
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