I went out on a photo trip yesterday. I’ve been testing the iPhone app GeoLogTag recently. For some reason I simply cannot get my iPhone talking to my MacBook, which makes a lot of the WiFi syncing apps a waste of time. GeoLogTag has an option to geotag photos on Flickr. If you visit this [...]

Normally blog entries here are written days in advance, so when I have busy days things continue as usual. For the past couple of weeks I’ve been very busy, hence the lack of blogging. On the plus side I have had some help from other people who found me some time saving tools. Mick Morrison [...]

Mapping crosses over between present and past thanks to a new technique which uses Flickr to create a Historical GPS. Colleen Morgan has the future of heritage mapping in her hand.

This is how Tom Goskar casually tosses a cat amongst the pigeons… If you’re interested in the archaeology of the county of Wiltshire, you can now access the Wiltshire Sites and Monuments Record (SMR) online, complete with a map interface. The SMR is the archaeological record of a county and, as Tom points out, Wiltshire [...]

Not Berlin. Photo (cc) thischanginglife. The Occupation is finally bringing the peoples of Iraq together in peace. I’ve tagged a blog post in del.icio.us Baghdad residents protest US-erected dividing wall on Annotated Life which notes that Sunnis and Shi’ites are hand in hand in opposition to the construction of the latest wall across the city. [...]

Sunset at Angkor Wat. Photo (cc) Cap’n Surly. The big story catching my eye at the moment is the discovery that there’s a lot more to Angkor Wat than previously thought. To some extent that shouldn’t be too surprising. The site is boasts massive buildings and is carefully planned. There’s some stunning engineering and hydraulics [...]

[Cross-posted to i-Science] Astronomical alignment at Segesta There’s a couple of paper which have come out recently which use different techniques for indicating astronomical alignments at archaelogical sites. The image above is one I put together for a poster to show why horizon altitude is important as well as azimuth. It’s quite tight, so it’d [...]

Laputan Logic links to the Surname Profiler at UCL. He also has interesting comments on tracing surnames. If the proposed connection between surnames and Y-chromosomes holds then you can bask in the genetic link to your forefathers. If you lack a Y-chromosome then you’ll just have to comfort yourself with the knowledge you can think [...]

Chichen Itza overlay on Google Earth The site Google Earth Hacks is deeply cool. As well as all the handy place marks, there are a few other models. I’ll see what I can do when autumn comes with this model available for download.

I’ve found that satellite data is getting cheaper. Eurimage are selling archived Quicksat data for $17/km2, though the minimum order is 25km2, so not an impulse buy yet. But it may soon become feasible to order satellite imagery of a site as it’s dug which could lead to fascinating things. I was interested as I [...]