Google Faculty Research Award call open !

The Google Research Awards  programme is open again open for applications and now in addition to computer science/GIS related projects the scope has been expanded into policy areas and we’re eager now to attract top notch researchers to submit applications on Internet policy matters. Researchers can apply for up to $150,000. However most first time awards are …

Free Google Geo workshop at the EGU

During the week of the annual European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna, my colleagues from the Google Earth Engine team will be holding a workshop for  Research and Higher Education users . This free workshop will provide a hands-on introduction to Google’s Geo cloud technologies, including Google Earth Engine for geospatial data analysis and Google …

A Map inside

We spend about 70% of our lives indoors, a real data capture challenge, as your need a very scalable solution – ProjectTango may be part of the solution..  Early days of course, but there is real potential with this approach, perhaps more than efforts focused on data standards which overlook how the data will be …

A map in minutes, how times have changed

Love Maps Engine, a simple Flood risk map based on liberated Environment Agency data, a bit of QGIS hacking and spare half hour. https://mapsengine.google.com/06793588975440581048-09757940799309423091-4/mapview/?authuser=0 I should do this more often, brings back happy GIS memories #blog  

What’s in the bag Steve

So Happy 30th Birthday Macintosh, this video from the original launch event once again demonstrates Jobs extraordinary ability to demo a product. Although of course technically a huge step forward from the green screen personal computers of the time, the Mac was a commercial disaster leading to the infamous ousting of Jobs from Apple just a …

To see further you need to build new telescopes

A much needed call to action from Alex Singleton, but I don't underestimate how hard this will be to achieve. There remains I'm afraid a cultural view within many Geography Departments against GIS let alone programming and the current generation of students entering higher education have no background in coding from school.    It's a …

Why Datums matter..

A nice article that lifts the lid on all the complexity we try to hid with tools like Google Earth.. and explains why the prime meridian at Greenwich is not the same on your iPhone !#blog What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move? | Critical Opalescence, Scientific American Blog Network A couple of …

Homeward Bound

It’s great to finally see this story told so well. It’s a truly uplifting demonstration of just what can happen when access to information changes peoples lives.. So for those days when you ask yourself if what you do in geo matters, just watch this video..

CERN in Street View

Another example of street view taking you to a place you are not likely to visit, CERN is the largest particle physics laboratory in the world and if you look carefully you might find a Higgs Boson !   #blog   CERN – Street View This post has been reshared 4 times on Google+ View …

Well done OS !!

Well done OS !! Reshared post from +Ordnance Survey We recruited a number of summer interns this year and one of them, Joseph Braybook, spent his time with our Innovation Labs team.  An avid fan of the Minecraft video game, he suggested building a Minecraft world using OS OpenData products. In just two weeks Joe …