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Links for 27 Feb 2008

Free Wifi on the bus
First group in Wales are installing wifi on their route between Cardiff and Swansea, something that the Google commuter buses have had for a while in California, really useful and a first in the Uk I think.

Two Mobiles.. then you may be a Terrorist
I don’t know many people who work in tech who don’t have a least two mobile phones (home and work anyone), well Scotland Yard just think that’s suspicious.. Heaven knows what they might think of my laptops encrypted hard drive.

Birmingham fills NLPG hole
For many years the NLPG GB address database, Local Governments competitor to the OS addresspoint database, had a big whole in it called Birmingham, well seems no longer. Is just a shame you can’t license it !!

Oh, and Fake Ed is having a party

Written and Submitted from the Hilton Trinidad, using the hotels broadband network.

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Google Earth Google Maps

Quick and Dirty KML with Mano and Pamela

Mano and Pamela present the first in a series of “hands-on” videos on various aspects of the Google Geo products, this first video is brilliant, a really down to earth discussion of how to create and manilpulate KML in both Google Earth and Google Maps.

Almost everybody will learn something from watching this, from newcomers to the geoweb to the experts out there !

Low production values (note the use of a box for a lectern), but all the better for it !

I’m in Trinidad this week at the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Conference, more about that later this week.

Written and Submitted from the Hilton Trinidad, using the hotels broadband network.

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GIS

Links for 21 Feb 2008

Airport Security
Another place not recommended to run Windows

USGS Tele Atlas inside
An interesting announcement from the ESRI federal user conference, USGS maps in the future will use TA map data, another step towards the mapping operations of the USGS moving to the commercial sector ?

GeoWeb 2008 Student Contest
Always one of the most interesting Geospatial conferences , this year there is a competition sponsored by Galdos, Google and the OSGeo foundation for a student to win an all expenses trip to attend this select conference in beautiful Vancouver, BC.

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