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david riallant (driallant): 31, Male
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Home Base: Pict'Earth

About Me:: Taking geography outdoors,

Website:: www.pictearth.com

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Ready to blog the planet?

Geographical information has always been a job for specialists :
integrating data, working with meta information, handling various
projections ... just like the web used to be. Thanks to hardware,
software and communication improvements a huge community now shares
information without any knowledge of html, javascript, programming
etc. ... Thanks to the web 2.0 phenomenon, blogs and personnal
websites give an alternative to content creation on the web giving
each one o…

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Posted by david riallant on July 18th, 2007 at 4:55pm — 1 Comment (Add)

What is Pict'Earth all about ?

If you look at the FAQ from Google Earth website the first questions are :
- How old are the images, How often are they updated ?
- Are they captured real time ?
- Why is there no sharp images over my house ?
Even if these questions may seem a little bit basic, they show very well the expectations of GE users. Once you have surfed the Grand Canyon, New York and Paris you want to know if the image of places where you live, where you work look like "reality". And of course most of…

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Posted by david riallant on July 13th, 2007 at 4:26pm — 2 Comments (Add)

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At 2:31pm on July 30th, 2007, Nick said…: im working on setting up my rc U2-R to take high quality still and video at the same time. As of this time I only have a few photos taken at 90 degrees to earth. i wanted to capture some fpv video at 90 degrees (straight down) with my super dazzler MK6 but the engine kept cutting out in the climb i think the mains might be shot as its on its seconds cylinder, rod and piston and its causing an vac leak.

This FPV stuff is also for my Masters Project so ill be busy with it.

-Nick

At 6:57am on July 17th, 2007, anna bergman said…: Thanx, it was Valery who invited me here. I´m using his Super Overlay programme to tile my kmls.
Ill be sure to check out your link.
This job is oh, so fun!
But I´m highly interested in your line of work as well, would be fun to see if it could be put to work together in some cool way.
/Anna