Last month I had the pleasure of presenting the 50th anniversary lecture of The Society of Cartographers in London. My slides are below.. The slides I must admit are not much use of their own, but you might get some idea of the narrative of my talk. My key message I think was to highlight a paradox, …
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Did a short package with Dutch TV yesterday in Amsterdam talking about the differences between the maps of the great Dutch cartographers of the 17th Century and modern Google Maps. In some ways there are surprising similarities, both in effect are all about discovery, earlier discoveries of new lands to exploit have been replaced by …
I was able to make a flying visit to the State of the Map US conference yesterday in Washington DC. As usual it had the higher than average GIS conference energy levels, but it felt really different to previous events to me.. Firstly the conference was a step up in terms of the professionalism of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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