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June 30, 2010 By

OS Maps plus BING plus Silverlight

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Meets Powerful Tools

I’ve just been looking at a blog by Jim Lynn. I can genuinely say I understand less than 1%, but has he made a stunning facility?

If you click any of the links below, you may need to download and install Silverlight – it’s a free application from Microsoft.

I’ve uploaded a number of Photosynths to the web (here’s one of the
Rockies) – and I thought I’d been doing quite well until I found Jim’s work.

Here’s what happens when Silverlight Deep Zoom technology meets the Ordnance Survey features in Bing maps.

How could you use this in school?

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November 12, 2009 By

Leicestershire Photosynths

Big Trucks (and then some)

Here are my first Photosynths in Leicestershire. The first one is Croft Quarry, taken from Croft Hill. Here’s a few ideas how you could use this in a Maths class..

How wide is the quarry – estimate it by using Bing Maps (click on the marker on rhs of the page)
How deep is it – estimate it
Find the dumper lorries – those tyres are 3m high and each truck carries 50 tonnes. How much volume is that (find density of granite and work from there)
The crushed rocks are carried out in trains – each carriage is approx 10m and takes 100 tones.
If all the rocks were placed on one train, would it reach the moon?
And – ‘Brucie Bonus’ – how many Olympic sized swimming pools?

Croft Quarry

This next synth shows the scale and beauty of Bradgate Park, just north of  Leicester

Bradgate Park

And here is a synth showing Bradgate House  – in the past the park and the house were the home of Lady Jane Grey

Bradgate House

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