Interesting Sri Lanka Air Force combat aircraft line up on Google Maps

There is an interesting line of Sri Lanka Air Force combat aircraft and helicopters (possibly helicopter gunships) on Google Maps (satellite view). In the tradition of my old Google Earth Posts I have included included a screen shot. For the nosy types, here's the Google Maps satellite view link. Both show a tight line up …

3 interesting Sri Lankan geo bloggers

Geo blogging humanises geography. It does by plugging in tools like geo tagged photography, Google Earth or Google Maps with blogging to share personal/human context/meaning of places that are otherwise just impersonal symbols on a map. It adds (hopefully) a human/cultural layer into maps. Something that's been impossible at a pre internet/social media scale. I've …

Google Earth Sri Lanka posts: 1000+ days later

According to my trusty day counter its been well over a 1000 days since I started my rather eccentric "tradition" of posting Google Earth images of Sri Lanka. For the big picture, there's the recently updated archive page. According to a poll I "conducted" a while back, a majority of respondents thought favourably of the …

Kirigalpoththa Mountain from Google Earth

Kirigalpoththa is Sri Lanka's second highest mountain. I learnt that from Sri Lankan hiking blog with the same name that I introduced a while back. Along with giving boots on the trail accounts of hiking in Sri Lanka Kirigalpoththa the blogger tends to put up photos of some stunning places in Sri Lanka that awe …

360 degree view from Sigiriya mountain summit

Magtoo.com lets you create and share panoramas from multiple photographs without using any graphics software. The system is geared to share your creations via numerous social networking sites such as Blogger, Facebook ect. Though the site is still under development I was able to create a 360 degree panorama of view from the summit of Sigiriya mountain quite easily.