Showing posts with label Google Maps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google Maps. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

More Remote Railfanning Via Google Maps




Garrison, Montana and the isolated BNSF, looks like a couple of SD70s are working interchange with the MRL.





At Silver Bow, Montana, a BNSF GP keeps a respectable distance from a set of UP road power.





In Butte, the shadow knows. Even if you couldn't tell by the roof fans, the profiles of GE vs EMD are revealed by their shadows.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

GIS News - France Fines Google Maps

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399755,00.asp

In some ways, I sympathize with the French Cartographic cartographic company claiming unfair competition with Google, but as a devoted Google Maps user, I also think that Bottin Cartographes needs to figure out how to present their cartographic products on the web, so as to compete with Google. It would be a different story if Google was actually stealing their maps. The French were major pioneers in cartography, after all, Napoleon needed to map all his conquests, but this is not the early Nineteenth Century!