Beer Garden

[dsriggs]

It's really more of a Shelbyville idea.

[Shahkar]

I currently have the invite only new Google Maps and Adelaide seems to be the first Australian city(that I know of) with 3-D imaging! Still a work in a progress, similar to the Apple maps released last year, but already looks pretty cool.

I believe it is done by Aerometrex.

[Nathan]

Interesting. The earth view of Adelaide wasn't there last week, when I got my invite.

I don't think Aerometrix would have supplied this data. There's is a lot more accurate, and up to date. Lower poly-counts aside, Googles seems to have quite a few genuine errors - particularly on a lot of flat roofs (many look like they're covered in spikes).

Still, it's good for getting a real handle on how dense (or not) a lot of areas of Adelaide are.

[Shahkar]

Interesting. The earth view of Adelaide wasn't there last week, when I got my invite.

I don't think Aerometrix would have supplied this data. There's is a lot more accurate, and up to date. Lower poly-counts aside, Googles seems to have quite a few genuine errors - particularly on a lot of flat roofs (many look like they're covered in spikes).

Still, it's good for getting a real handle on how dense (or not) a lot of areas of Adelaide are.

I think it was added today.

If you look at the bottom, it does say Aerometrex. The 3-D imaging of New York is supplied by a similar company yet, there isn't completely up to date as well.

And yep, it does give a fair bit of idea. Hopefully, they'll fix the glitches quickly. Although, it misses out on the newly builts like the SAHMRI and Rundle Place.

[monotonehell]

I currently have the invite only new Google Maps and Adelaide seems to be the first Australian city(that I know of) with 3-D imaging! Still a work in a progress, similar to the Apple maps released last year, but already looks pretty cool.

I believe it is done by Aerometrex.

I just got an invite tonight. Fun isn't it? Right now Adelaide is more high rise than Sydney.

[Shahkar]

I just got an invite tonight. Fun isn't it? Right now Adelaide is more high rise than Sydney.

Oh the joy

Pretty impressive I must say!

Big surge in international tourists visiting South Australia

SOUTH Australia has recorded the highest growth in international visitor numbers in five years, figures released today show.

The International Visitor Survey reveals SA attracted 357,000 tourists in the year to March, up 5.5 per cent, or 20,000, on the previous year and the greatest increase in five years.

Visitors also stayed longer as the number of nights booked grew by almost 15 per cent.

Tourism Minister Leon Bignell said Europe and China were growth markets.

"While we continue to attract visitors from our traditional markets including New Zealand, the UK and the US, we are also seeing results from a marketing push into China," Mr Bignell said.

"In the past 12 months we have seen a 26 per cent increase in the number of Chinese visitors."

Earlier this year the State Government released a strategy with a target to attract 57,000 Chinese tourists to SA by 2020.

This would generate $450 million in tourism revenue, the strategy forecast.

Mr Bignell said extra international flights were responsible for a 10 per cent increase in European visitors to the state in the most recent quarter surveyed.

"In 2002, just 13 international flights a week landed in Adelaide - this year its 42 flights a week, an increase of more than 23 per cent since early last year," Mr Bignell said.

[The Scooter Guy]

The Asha Hair Salon/Deli on King William St next to the Ambassadors has been fire damaged early this morning.
It was very lucky that the fire was minor and didn't burn the hotel down!

Asha Hair Salon/Deli by The Scooter Guy, on Flickr


Asha Hair Salon/Deli by The Scooter Guy, on Flickr


Asha Hair Salon/Deli by The Scooter Guy, on Flickr


Asha Hair Salon/Deli by The Scooter Guy, on Flickr


Asha Hair Salon/Deli by The Scooter Guy, on Flickr

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/sout ... 6658257085

[Shahkar]

Someone should consider doing something similar for our upcoming election.

http://www.futureperth.org/projects/sta ... tion-2013/

[Benski81]

I don't know if your last comment is fair actually, Western Sydney attract larger crowds and they're definitely doing better than their AFL counterparts. Also I was looking on google and I think Melbourne Victory out performs Port Power also on the ye olde attendance'o'meter. I haven't bothered to check the others yet.

Really, you looked on Google and came to that conclusion? You mustn't have looked very hard..

2012/13 - Port 30,653 attendance average Victory 23,089 attendance average
2011/12 - Port 19,911 Victory 19,208
2010/11 - Port 23,066 Victory 15,058
2009/10 - Port 24,256 Victory 20,750

2006 - Port attendance 28,546, Victory attendce 27,728. Victorys most successful year, attendance wise. And that year Melbourne won the A League, Port didn't even make the finals.

Please...tell us more how Melbourne Victory gets bigger crowds.

But let's stick to SA..Adelaide United's biggest average crowd...12,697. This past season? 9,592.
Victory or the Wanderers aren't competing with Port or the Crows for our money, Adelaide United is.
And Adelaide United sucks bigger then a Thai lady boy during the a full moon party full of falangs.

Yes, yes preach it Reverend! Preach it!

To be honest I didn't look hard at all. Actually while laying in bed I used the convenience of my google powered smart phone to do a few searches and spent about 3 minutes of life on it at about 1 in the morning. Now to the actual point, Claybro said that The "A-league" and not Adelaide united, not Brisbane roar, not Perth Glory but the "A-league" could not attract crowds any where near what Port Power could attract and we simply know that's not true. You kindly put up some statistics that show it's really not that different and the A-league can attract crowds similar in nature to Port Power. No one else was talking about Adelaide specifically, just you and therefore half of your post ended up being redundant. BTW I don't disagree United's attendances are somewhat lame and embarrassing. Sad face. I was at the sudden death final against Brisbane and Hindmarsh was only half full but this is not the discussion being had. What you just did would be no different to me responding to Claybro's post by saying "yeah well how many people globally attend football matches each week compared with how many people globally attend AFL matches?!"

In economics we use statistics all the time, one thing we are very careful to do is to use factors we think are relevant to a particular issue and then use regression analysis to test the data to see if in fact it is relevant to the issue at hand. Otherwise statistics can be manipulated to say all sorts of wonderful things. So with that in mind look at the years you've quoted, what happened during that time period that might affect Victory attendances? Yes Melbourne Heart was born in 2010/2011 and wow what do we see, a dramatic drop in attendance for Victory games! Hmmmm what do you think might have caused that, hmmmm I'm lost for an explanation. Hand on Heart I just can't imagine what it would be.

So if we're going to play this game we would need to collect data on the number of people who ceased attending Victory matches and now attend Melbourne Heart matches and then add that to the additional number of new attendees for Melbourne Victory matches over the time period to gain a new more accurate average. Once we've done that we then need to test the hypothesis that a Melbourne Heart attendance is in fact a substitute good to a Melbourne Victory attendance and then we can do a genuine comparison of the attendance numbers and draw some informed conclusions. Now we're not about to do this are we, hence why I concluded my 3 minutes spent researching the numbers was more than enough.

Also, and with due respect, I don't see how this makes any sense to be honest:

2006 - Port attendance 28,546, Victory attendce 27,728. Victorys most successful year, attendance wise. And that year Melbourne won the A League, Port didn't even make the finals.

I'm assuming that's an average attendance? How would someone attending the 1st, or the 2nd or the 10th match of the season know that Melbourne Victory was going to win the cup or that Port Adelaide wouldn't make the finals? So how could the outcome of the season affect the attendances of all the matches that have come before it? Unless using the tax revenue generated from the clearly superior economic stimulus created by AFL, the government has secretly supplied Port Power with a time machine to be used to teleport supporters back to earlier matches thus increasing the the tax revenue generated in a never ending perpetual cycle of economic stimulus. Brilliant! No seriously a better use of that stat would be to look at the attendances of matches in the following season.

[claybro]

Ok guys, comparing the sports attendances was not the original point of my original post on the AO thread. I was trying to point out the contribution Aussie rules fans are making to the success of the whole AO development. I see red when people run down the AFL, say they cant care less about the Crows /Power blah blah, but then go on to foam about some far off Adelaide united match or some B grade world cup qualifier which may get the ground half full. Soccer in this country has had its hand out since day 1, and from my observation of my sons involvement is still divided on ethnic tribal grounds and therefore as a spectator sport does not appeal to mainstream Australia.The AFL in my opinion would have to be one of the most professionally run sports internationally. It attracts huge crowds every week, by far the most of any code, and even huge crowds by international standard, week in week out every winter. It must be doing something right. Crowds at rugby league and the soccer A league are a joke, and if not for the huge following of the AFL, Adelaide would never have this world class stadium development on its door step, with the associated economic activity for the CBD, ditto for Melbourne with ETHIAD, Perth soon to be built Burswood, ETC.

[Maximus]

It attracts huge crowds every week, by far the most of any code, and even huge crowds by international standard, week in week out every winter.

Yes -- something that I suspect not many people realise. AFL has the fourth-highest average attendance of any professional sports league in the world, behind only the NFL, Bundesliga and Premier League.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_att ... attendance

[The Scooter Guy]

More pedestrian countdown timers are now operating at two pedestrian crossings on Henley Beach Road at Mile End.
The crossings are located along the busy retail section of Henley Beach Road between West Street and Clifford Street, and between East Street and Jervois Street.
Installation of these new pedestrian countdown timers follows successful implementation at a number of locations in the city and suburbs. Monitoring of the recently installed North Terrace pedestrian countdown timers revealed that they provided useful information to pedestrians without any significant adverse effects. Pedestrians surveyed indicated a belief that countdown timers are safer and they would like to see them used at more locations.

[SRW]

This is pretty cool:

[ajp]

[monotonehell]

This is a bit of fun. Trying to work out which country has the worst national debt...

http://youtu.be/EpJKRD9pyt8