Wow, Multimap appears to be playing around with some new technology to overlay detailed street maps on top of aerial photos. Super cool application, although I’m not sure how much use it is in dense urban areas. Not sure how to access it generally either.

Ferget about Google’s pigeon rank, now it’s all about the pigeon net. Or one lads canny way of solving a tricky data transmission problem. Marvellous.

‘Mr Andreef said he rattled his brain to think of a way staff could work on the digital images before the tourists got back.
“We don’t have phone lines and telephone exchanges of sufficient quality to transmit the data, so we came up with the pigeon concept.” Caving guides took the memory stick from their cameras and attached it to a velcro pack on the pigeon. “It only takes the pigeons about six minutes for their journey,” said Mr Andreef. “They can transfer three gigs over 20km faster than the internet.”‘