Team Geared Up

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - A TGU reader Robert Poli has commented on the Steve Fossett search post to say he’s found something in Google Earth. Look at coordinates: N38* 50′ 04″ W118*52′45.37″ small, white, right angle image on mountainside. A quick check of the coo[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The Red Bull X-Alps challenge has started. The race requires athletes to travel as fast as possible from Austria to Monte Carlo by foot & paraglider only. Effectively they run/walk up mountains then jump off and fly as far as they can. Land & repeat. There ar[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Apologies for the duplication if you read ByteSurgery.com, but I’d like to syndicate this post here on TGU as we covered the launch of Google Street Views earlier. LONDON, UK - Google Street Views has blown me away. The ability to do a 3D rotational view of any s[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Google have just launched ‘Street View’ on Google Maps. It appears they have driven around large US cities with a 360 camera mounted on a vehicle taking panoramas every 20 metres. This is fantastic. Try this link to Times Square, New York. Try clicking [...] Read More »

Rowan sent me on a link to MTBGuru, the work of a friend of his at PARC (Palo Alto Research Centre). This site is for Runners, Mountain Bikers, Road Cyclists, Hikers, Skiers & Mountaineers! You could consider the MTBGuru website as a worldwide directory of outdoor trips or rides; you can crea[...] Read More »

WHISTLER, BC (Geared Up Blog) - Google Engineer Matt Cutts has written a post about a site with a mash-up for Google Maps. Gmaps Pedometer. You just click to mark out where you walked and it will give you: - how far you walked - the change in elevation - how many calories you burned There is no regi[...] Read More »

WHISTLER, BC (Geared Up Blog) - Google have updated their images for with Google Maps and Google Earth again. They do this every few months. This time there is a huge difference; The Swiss Alps terrain is in high resolution to 10 meters! This is quite amazing!! Having spent a lot of time in the Al[...] Read More »

For all you Google Earth enthusiasts you’ll be happy to know that Google has just released the latest version of the revolutionary and free mapping software. Google Earth 4 has a slew of new features and tweaks most notable are the following: * Higher quality terrain and building texture[...] Read More »