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 …

Terrorist held areas in Sri Lanka – Mullativu Google Earth

Image below shows a detail of a settlement on the northern side of the entrance to the Nanthikadal lagoon in Mullativu. The next image shows the area further north towards the Palamattalam/Puthumathalan area. The LTTE terrorists continue to hold thousands of people as human shields in these areas. I guess for the LTTE terrorist cult's …

SLAF jet squadron tarmac time lapse video

Youtube video below (my first!) shows a time lapse satellite view of the tarmac around Katunayake air force base jet aircraft hangers. I am not an expert in identifying military aircraft from satellite photos. Perhaps those who can would contribute via the comment box or the very cool youtube video annotations feature. Your choices are down to …

Boost your blog with satellitesights.com

satellitesights.com is an easy to use, free community driven service that lets you create posts with interactive Google satellite images. Think of it as flickr.com for satellite sightseeing. It is far easier (and faster) to add locations to this site than rendering+editing+uploading+embedding images from Google Earth into blog posts - as I have laborious been …

Jet fighter hangers Katunayake air force base

Interiors of SLAF jet aircraft hangers (5, 10 & 14 squadrons) pictured below are clearly visible from any passenger aircraft taxing on the Colombo airport's runway. These hangers are located on the western end of the runway in Sri Lanka's only international airport. Supposedly the only one of the island's ww2 era airstrips that's long …