The BBC today posted an interesting Election map contianing candidate and constituency details for the upcoming election. Its always intersting to see a non-GIS approach to a developing a mini-site like this. I think we have a lot to learn as a industry here from the media on understanding user needs.
Also another Flash based site.. another nail in the coffin of SVG ???
I went along yesterday to the Open Knowledge Forum meeting on Open Geodata in London. Overall I was very impressed by the debate, apart from a couple of exceptions we seem to be moving the arguement away from the simple “free data good, charging for data bad” mantra – in particular Roger Longhorns’ presentation was a well balanced review of the availability of geodata around the word and the various models used to fund it. Hopefully this along with the other presentations will be posted on the web in due course.
The process of community-based efforts to capture copyright free geodata is slowly beginning, it will be an uphill struggle as the capture and maintenance of Geodata is expensive, but then again so is the development of Operating Systems.
No I don’t see a Linux like Mastermap appearing anytime soon, but a national street map could be possible within a couple of years.
Written and submitted from the BMI lounge at Dublin Airport, using a free 802.11 network.
The Apple website turns black !!
The latest version of the best desktop operating system Mac OS Tiger is set to ship within weeks, priced at £89. Look for special events at the AppleStore Regent Street.
