Gary Gale

... and I'm here in the capital and largest city of the Netherlands for the first Location Business Summit with Walter Andrag and Bob Upham from Yahoo! Geo Technologies and Anil Patel and Chris Heilmann from YDN, the Yahoo! Developer Network. Another city, another hotel so this would be a good time for the obligatory through the window shot.

I'll be giving a talk on Hyperlocal or Hype (and Local)? later on this morning and will also be on a panel tomorrow morning, discussing how to try and monetize the growing geospatial web. This is the first Location Business Summit, so here's hoping it'll be geotastic.

Photo Credits: Foxgrrl and Kaptain Kobold on Flickr.

Pretty much invisible at night, still officially at war with their southern neighbour and under United Nations economic sanctions, North Korea is a blank spot on political maps of the area.

Even the satellite imagery layer in Google Maps has little additional detail to offer.

But compare and contract against the updated imagery for North Korea that Google Earth has had since December of last year.

Finally add in the Google Earth layer that the North Korea Economy Watch has created and all of a sudden North Korea springs into view. Ever wanted to see where the Hoeryong Essential Foodstuff Factory was located? Now you can.

Forgive me; it's been 5 conferences and 2 months since my last Deliciousness post and I offer this one up by way of atonement.

• Stamford Brook, Parr's Ditch, Counter's Creek ... all part of the network of lost rivers beneath the streets of London. I grew up next to and played in one of them, Beverley Brook, as a (very muddy) child.
• Some maps are works of art but Jason LaFerrera makes works of art from maps. No, really.
• OpenStreetMap, waze and Map Maker announce the formation of the Closed Street Map alliance, but check out the date of the post and the registrant's details from the WHOIS record as well.
• A search for estate agents in Islington on Mountain View's favourite search engine seems to say that prisons and estate agents are one and the same.
• Forget dogs that look like their owners. Forget owners that look like their dogs. Fonts that look like dogs, that's the thing.
• While I'm on the subject of fonts; best alphabet. Ever.
• While I'm on the subject of best (ever); best beer name. Ever.
• The last time I mentioned bacon deliciousness was October 2009 so here's a double helping. Still cooking your bacon the old fashioned way, you know, in a frying pan or under the grill? Try wrapping it around your machine gun for a change. You're going to be thirsty after all that cooking (and possibly that shooting) so slake your thirst with a beer, bacon flavoured of course.
• I want this tee shirt, part one. Some days you make the coffee, some days the coffee makes you.
• I want this tee shirt, part two. Nerd is the new cool you know.
• I want this tee shirt, part three. Bacon makes everything better.
• Not much in the grand scheme of things but two of my Flickr photos made it into the 2010 London Schmap guide. This pleased me.
• Still drinking your coffee, the old fashioned way, by mouth? That's so passe. Inhaling is the new drinking.
• Not one KitKat. Oh no. Nineteen of them. In Japan only, sadly.

The week before last I was in downtown San Jose for the annual geofest that is O'Reilly's Where 2.0 conference and the view from the hotel window wasn't that dramatic by any stretch of the imagination.

Last week I was on holiday in Turkey and the view from the window of the Xanadu Resort Hotel was pretty damn spectacular, both in the evening ...

... and in the first light of the day.