GeoEye made quick work of posting an image from Barack Obama’s Inauguration today.  As promised, they snapped a photo at 11:19am and had it posted by this afternoon.  The photo does a great job of capturing the mass of people that were in Washington.  It was very interesting to see the the crowds formed — presumably to get in front of the billboard-sized screens that were set-up along the mall.

If you’d like to see it for yourself, Google has created a special overlay that includes the file.

I’m a bit disappointed there weren’t any easter eggs in there — it was well known that the photo would be taken at 11:19, and the festivities hadn’t really begun at that point.  Still, given the relatively low quality of the photo it would have taken some serious work to make something that would have been visible.  Plus, you never know when a plan like that can go bad.

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Satellite image of the inauguration crowds today

Brian Timoney has made some nice updates to GulfImpact.com ahead of Hurricane Ike.  Not only does it give you the location and path of the storm, but it shows all of the affected oil wells in the Gulf, broken down by company.  He uses Virtual Earth to power it.

I’ve heard a lot of news stories about how gas prices are likely to shoot up due to this, and this site shows why.  Great site!

(via Spatially Adjusted)

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The energy costs of Hurricane Ike