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Congratulations to the GEO Research Award Winners

by Ed ParsonsThoughts February 25, 2013January 9, 2021Comments are Disabled

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..

by Ed ParsonsAviation, Google Earth January 24, 2013Comments are Disabled

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 …

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At last the OS app !

by Ed ParsonsThoughts January 10, 2013January 9, 202110 Comments

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?

by Ed ParsonsOpen Government Data, Ordnance Survey, Thoughts December 4, 20124 Comments

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 ?

by Ed ParsonsOpen Government Data November 29, 20123 Comments

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 …

Geo for Research and Higher Education Workshop

by Ed ParsonsThoughts November 20, 2012January 9, 2021One Comment

If you are going along to the AGU in San Francisco this year, I would recommend registering for this event which is being run by the Google Earth Outreach team. It’s free, but there are only 100 places. This is a “hands on” event so you need to bring your laptop and knowledge of Javascript/Google …

My presentation from PinPoint London..

by Ed ParsonsThoughts November 13, 2012January 9, 20218 Comments

The past, present and future of maps.. Written and submitted from home (51.425N, 0.331W)

Bad maps.. really a search problem

by Ed ParsonsApple, Thoughts October 3, 20126 Comments

So now everyone knows making a map of our little planet to make available to users of mobile devices everywhere that is both accurate, up-to-date and detailed is hard. And with the benefit of hindsight and industry expertise we can smile knowledgeably at the mainstream tech press falling over themselves debating and theorising over Apple …

The annotated world literally!

by Ed ParsonsThoughts September 10, 2012January 9, 2021One Comment

Last week I had the pleasure of delivering a Keynote at the 4th Digital Earth Summit in Wellington, New Zealand. This was a wonderful experience in a number of ways, firstly Wellington really is the coolest little capital on the planet, secondly as always I meet a great bunch of people including some budding entrepreneurs …

My Wife and Daughter rowing 80 miles for charity

by Ed ParsonsBlog September 8, 2012Comments are Disabled

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+…