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My flat in Prague

Here is the building I use to live in (2003-2005). I lived on the Fourth floor and, like my politics, my window is on the far left.
Na shledanou!

Putting Up Buildings (Google Earth and Sketchup)

Start Google Earth and Google Sketchup

Navigate to your desired location in Google Earth. Zoom in and center on your planned building site.

Go over to Sketchup and click the Get Current View button. After a few seconds, the result should be something like this:


(1) You can use the Orbit button to tilt the view a bit so you can see your building site better. (2) Use either rectangle, circle, or pencil tool to draw your building's footprint. (3) Use the Push/Pull tool to 3-dimensionalize your building.




Next, add whatever features you want to jazz up your building.

Finally, click the Place Model button.


Go to Google Earth. In the Places Table of Contents you should see a new entry referring to your drawing. Select this entry and right click and select properties and give it an appropriate name. Then right click and click Save Place As. You can save as KMZ format (compressed) or KML format (uncompressed).


Here is a link to the one that I just created following these steps:
New Vera Long Building

How Does GPS Work? Let YouTube Do the Teaching...

ArcGIS and GPS Data

Back to the Farm -- in a Map

An article in Sunday's NYT business section ("Farm Living (Subsidized by a Job Elsewhere)" - Andrew Martin)describes an increase in the number of farms in the U.S. but that many of them are small, part-time operations that are subsidized by the farmer having to work another job.

Maps and Politics

Brad Stone has a piece in today's NYT, "Prop 8 Donor Web Site Shows Disclosure Law Is 2-Edged Sword," on the controversial Web site eightmaps.com. It raises some interesting sociology of information issues as well as questions about privacy, free speech, and the ethics of activism.