Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Google Earth KLM file of Joshua Slocum's Voyage


Tonight I'm doing some research on KLM files (to prepare a file of my 2004 voyage, displaying the voyage track on Google Earth or Google Maps).

Keyhole Markup Language (KLM) Documentation
https://developers.google.com/kml/ 

I happened to come across a very cool Google Earth KLZ file (a zipped version of the KLM) put together by Jonathan M. Ahlbrand of Joshua Slocum's late 1800s voyage around the world.




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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Marine Wifi

Tonight I happened across this marine wifi vendor:
http://www.thewirie.com

 [hat tip to http://sv-cestlavie.blogspot.com/]

I also have recently looked at several options at Frys - which appear to offer good alternatives to consider.