Alpine webcam and weather map update

Actually, this is a slight modification, only.

From now on, the Alpine webcam and weather map looks great in any browser window, no matter which trade and what resolution it is. Visitors with Safari, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, IE6, IE7 are all welcome!

Au Revoir, Paris

Back from Paris, I decided to share an itinerary for those of us on business trip to Paris, having only 1 day for this marvellous city.

1. Arrival - Try to organize your flight so that You land at the Orly Airport
2. Accommodation - I can recommend the hotel which we also stayed, the Hotel Daguerre. It is located in the lovely Daguerre street, a 10-minute-walk from the end station of the Orly Bus. In the street, even from the hotel room, You can access the "THOMSON" wireless network, which is free to use
3. You can have a joyful breakfast in the street, in any of the cafes
4. To start the sightseeing, walk back to the Orly's, to Denfert-Rocherau, and take the metro to station Concorde (line 6 to Montparnasse Bienvenüe, then line 12). It's worth upstairing the Triomph, to have a great outlook to both the historical and the modern city
5. Have a walk on the Avenue des Champs Elysées, across the Jardin des Tuileries, straight to the Musée du Louvre. The Champs Elysées prmoises a great corso, the Tuileries is a great place to have some break, while the Louvre contains everything You might be interested in. You should study the list of exhibitions before your visit, otherwise You might get confused of the incredible rich gallery
6. To have something to eat, look up the Latin district

That's it in a nutshell. Of course, if You have several days, You can check much more sights in Paris. Have a look at my page with pictures taken during our 4-day-long stay

Greetings from Paris

Oh yes, sitting 200 meters above Paris, atop the Tour Montparnasse, watching the sun setting behind the Eiffel's... and ourselves in the huge mirror...
Paris is fantastic. The people all look like being able to have fun anytime, anywhere.
This post only appears in my blog, if i find a free wifi hotspot. I do believe in Paris...

New Satellite Imagery for Switzerland

... and other territories!

 

Google has nowadays announced the updated imagery, including hi-res pics of the Swiss Alps. Come on, who can find an alpinist in action? Send me the url (right click on "Link to this page" button on maps.google.com) of the view, please, please....

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Ádám
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Großglockner info updated

Großglockner route and climbing map is available at My Places.
Apart from this, Rome, Praha, Portugal and Sicily trips have been reorganized

My Places - the upgrade

Trying to utilize the new features provided by Google Maps, I have established a new standard to display the ALP summit log, the alpine info source at My Places.

In the latest version, apart from the pics and placemarks, You can find the tracklog of the path we used, along with a short summary of our experiences and recommendations. In case of climbing routes, there is a topo instead of the tracklog. Furthermore, there is an alpinistic map overlay to serve even more info about the territory. Currently, all these new features are available for our ascent on Mont Blanc, but the rest is coming soon.

In case of cycling routes, You can also find useful pieces of info as well as the elevation diagram of the route.

 

I needn't mention that this stuff is still embedded into a standard kml file, so in the future editions of Google Maps for Mobile You will most likely be able to find and display this info on the screen of your cell phone. And we have a good chance to enjoy GPS support, too :)

 

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Ádám
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Google Maps searches private map info

Until now, You could search for locations and POIs (Point of Interest) using Google Maps. What's more, if You knew the address of a hosted kml or kmz file, You could use Google Maps to show its contents. But, You could not search for contents that others may have hosted. E.g., You might be looking for trekking pathes on a specific area, or touristic map overlays (like "crosscountry ski route nassfeld austria", etc). Altough others may have hosted such info (e.g. http://adszhu.googlepages.com), You just could not find them with Google Maps.
Google has just announced the change, and, as a first step, You can query for hosted geo contents from Google Earth. Find the original article here:
Google Maps API Official Blog: Search for KML in Google Earth