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20 February 2014

Met Office Storm Tracker Update


Met Office Storm Tracker Update
(the updated new service is free of subscription.)




"Following a recent upgrade to StormTracker, we are providing the new service free of subscription. As a result you will no longer have access to the subscription based service you have previously used.
From the 26th February the old StormTracker pages will no longer be available.  Instead, you can now access StormTracker without the need to log in, by simply following the link below:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/storm-tracker/

We welcome any feedback on this service and would love to hear your thoughts on the new StormTracker.

Many thanks,
Met Office"



This is n update from an older post
http://mapperz.blogspot.com/2011/07/met-office-storm-tracker-beta.html (22 July 2011)

19 February 2014

OpenStreetMap competes during the Olympics


 OpenStreetMap competes during the Olympics (and gets gold).

 Top Left is OpenStreetMap, Top Right is Google Maps, Bottom Left is Bing Maps and Bottom Right is the Geofabik interpretation of OSM.


Compare them all here
http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?lon=40.28988&lat=43.68848&zoom=13&num=4&mt0=mapnik&mt1=google-map&mt2=bing-map&mt3=geofabrik-topo

OpenCycleMap using OSM data looks impressive too:
 

sources:

http://opensource.com/life/14/2/weekly-wrap-feb-14