From the cool photography of Wai Fong Fung, Christmas Greetings from a Galaxy far far away…
Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.. with my feet up actually.
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Month: December 2008
Early this week to test a new Android application and to walk of the Google Christmas Lunch, I went for an early afternoon walk near the office.
The application I was testing was My Maps Editor and Android application to create and edit Google My Maps, and it pretty much worked first time as expected allowing be to create a simple map of my walk.
At the end of 2008 it’s quite difficult to get really excited by this as we have come to expect so much from mainstream geospatial technology.
But just think what I have achieved from my walk, not only have I created a multimedia rich database with potentially metre accuracy geospatial features, I have also created a distribution channel to publish the database within minutes to hundreds of millions of users.
All from a mobile device that costs a few hundred pounds.
So this type of technology may never be used to create base map data, but for many organisations who need to be able to do simple data capture outside of the office there is huge potential here.
Maybe over christmas I will complete my recycling map for Richmond 🙂
Written and submitted from the Google Office, London.
The Guardian after a gap of a couple of years has a list of its top sites of the year, and as the article points out the two big trends have been in collaboration and LBS applications.
One of the sites selected is a personal favourite of mine “where’s the path” a mashup of Google and OS mapping..
Ironic then, the publicity of the national newspaper mentions results in..
Perhaps out of embarrassment, the OS may up the daily limit ?
Written and submitted from the Google Office, London.