Let the Games Begin!

Posted on 13 February 2010

The 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver has just started and we had to do some elementary investigation on GIS and this event.

First off, as gisuser.com wrote about , google has introduced street view to the 2010 winter olympics. Now you can see all the ski slopes and navigate around in some of the inaccessible areas you probably would not be able to see.
The street view has been made using a google street view snowmobile, and they have set up their own page linking the events to the map.
Google Street View Olympics – Get inside the games!

Google has also made a olympic torch relay interactive map where you can see the route the torch has taken on its way to light the 2010 olympic fire.
More here

Microformats.dk has an interactive 3D tour of the Olympic venue sites using google earth plugin.
Watch it here.

You can download Vancouver olympic data here (Thanks to Kay at cartotalk.com for this link).

Lets hope for fair and enjoyable games.