Technology and Landscape Design

It's been awhile since I last posted. It's primarily because of the demands of the season, and this post will be brief for the same reason. 

I'm sure many others have discovered some of the new features in Google Maps. Briefly, if you enter an address, quite often there is an interactive street-level photo linked to it. So if you are headed out, for example, to meet a new client, you can do some homework and take a sneak peek at the front of the property. Aerial photos are available too. It's pretty cool. 

There have also been some interesting things captured by these cameras, like they guy on a Chicago street pointing a gun at a kid , and people photographed entering/exiting some types of businesses that they would probably prefer to remain private! See some fun examples here: 

Abovetopsecret.com and Mashable.com

Here's a funny spoof of the technology. 

Also, if you use Internet Explorer on a Windows machine, check out Microsoft Virtual Earth. You get full 3-D aerial photos. Pretty cool. 

More soon on the APLD conference I attended recently.