Congratulations to the GEO Research Award Winners

Congratulations  to the successful recipients of the Google Winter Research Awards from the GI Science community. In this round six awards were made for proposals including Remote Sensing of volcanoes using UV imaging, Spatial Cognition, and VGI. Congratulations to; Andrew McGonigle, University of Sheffield Johannes Schoening, UCL/Hasselt University Evdokia Nikolova, Texas A&M Long Quan, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Cyrus …

When a map tells a story..

Last weeks tragic accident involving the crash of a Augusta helicopter in London, which claimed two lives is still fresh in the minds of most Londoners. Yesterday the Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) published their initial accident bulletin, which describes the facts surrounding the accident as investigated without the analysis which will come in a later report in some months time. The AAIB report …

At last the OS app !

Welcome to the future… The future of the consumer business of Ordnance Survey (OS) that is.. Just in time the OS has launched an app for iOS, with Android in the pipeline, that demonstrates there is a future role of the agency in the post paper map age. For a number of years the OS has relied …

So does Open GovData allow SME’s to flourish?

Within the first few weeks of joining the Ordnance Survey 10 years or so ago I was shown a prototype map of the New Forest printed on silk, for reasons anyone who has read the “Innovators dilemma” will understand it was never turning into a product, and I still have  the prototype in a drawer at home. …

The new opengov data poster child ?

You may not like the symbology used in this map.. but you can’t deny that the “Interactive map of England’s green belt” published by the Telegraph Newspaper yesterday is an another important milestone in the opening up of Government Geodata. It is important for a number of reasons.. Firstly it liberates data that was previously difficult/expensive …

My Wife and Daughter rowing 80 miles for charity

My Wifeand Daughter rowing 80 miles for charity.. And next weekend you find me somewhere on the riverbank of the Thames between Oxford and Hampton Court! Flo and Lisa’s page Flo Blake Parsons is fundraising for KGS FOUNDATION This was posted on Google+…