The frustrated fisherman’s map of Melbourne

Lockdown V2 allows fishing, as long as you stay within the locked down area, and stick to your nearest practical water. I blended the locked down Local Government Areas, with a list of waters that have been stocked by Fisheries to create a quick reference map. It’s pretty up to date, too! Open the map …

Google – more evil by the day?

I find this very troubling. Someone at Google appears to be deliberately and systematically polluting and plundering the crowdsourced data of competitors. Two instances seem to have been all but proven so far (check this post about OpenStreetMap and Mocality), it seems unlikely that it stops there. If ever an action was hypocritical and seemingly …

Google, the street view trike came, and went

Update: 18 months now, still prodding google, but no answers yet 🙁 Google Street View is brilliant – in fact, the whole digital map revolution is largely driven by expectations set by Google. Their tech is amazing. Unfortunately, as an organisation, they often fail to come up to scratch. A shame… here’s an example: Every …

kids were much cooler in my day

It’s true! sadly. If you’re not convinced, just check these two images from NASA. They depict global temperature anomalies over the course of a decade. The top one is the most recent: 2000-01-01 to 2009-12-31, while the bottom is a decade from my youth: 1970-01-01 to 1979-12-31. Quite the little climate vandals, ain’t we?Click through …