Month: January 2006

And so it starts – Google Local (maps) get’s blue pins

Post author By Ed Parsons
Post date January 12, 2006
2 Comments on And so it starts – Google Local (maps) get’s blue pins

Spot the blue pins..

David Galbraith has spotted the arrival of blue pin markers on google local maps representing sponsored hotel locations, as well as the usual red ones.

This was always going to happen, all that mapping data from Teleatlas, Digitalglobe, Navteq etc costs money…I predicted this back in June of last year, and to their credit Google seem to be approaching this is a restrained way so far.. please lets hope we don’t end up with little “Golden Arches” at every McDonalds.

Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.

GIS Technology

Offical Google Earth for the Mac !!

Post author By Ed Parsons
Post date January 11, 2006
2 Comments on Offical Google Earth for the Mac !!

Hidden behind the news of the first Intel powered iMacs and Macbooks (yuk – don’t like that name!!) Google released the official MacOS version of Google Earth. Having played with the beta for the last month or so, it works very much the same as the windows version, and will work on relatively low spec macs as long as you are running Tiger. Note however this is the basic Google Earth, not plus so you we need to use another method to get you GPS data loaded – if thats your thing.

GIS Thoughts

Tim Berners-Lee joins the bloggers

Post author By Ed Parsons
Post date January 9, 2006
1 Comment on Tim Berners-Lee joins the bloggers

Thanks to John, one of the OS semantic web experts for pointing out that Tim Berners-Lee has started a blog.

Some of my colleagues at the OS have in the past discussed the importance of GI with Tim, and he recognises geographic information as an important component to the semantic systems of the future.

Now you know this is going to be one you must read….