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GIS Thoughts

Calling UK Geobloggers

Dominic has a very interesting post over at geometrybag, noting the lack of UK centric content in the dozen or so UK based blogs that deal with Geography and GIS. Dominic is on to something here, there are many topics that are of interest to a UK specific readership beyond OS bashing of course 🙂 , but maybe the point is that the technology issues we deal with are global ?

Maybe it is just a problem with the “traditional” GI industry, I know from personal experience that UK organisations are less receptive to blogging than those in the United States for example, and to be fair the OpenStreetMap, and geowanking mailing list communities have very active participation from Brits.

Are we in the UK a year or two behind the curve on this ?

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GIS Technology where 2.0

Tim Berners Lee to Keynote at Terra future 2006

Terra FutureFollowing on from the success of last years Terra Future event, this year TBL will be the keynote speaker at Terra future 2006 the Ordnance Survey meeting focused on Research and innovation in the use of Geographic Information. We are very pleased to have Tim presenting as OS has had an active research group looking into the geographic semantic web for a number of years and are well respected.

Also speaking is Mike Liebhold of the Institute for the Future who keynoted at this years where 2.0 conference in San Jose.

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Google Maps Thoughts

The best Google Maps hack yet ?

Goggles

Goggles is a flash based ‘Flight simulator” that lets you fly around Google Maps imagery.

Great fun, don’t fly to low, but who knows what licensing issues this throws up 🙂

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