Marc Collins and 4 others were tagged in Ed Parsons’s album.
Marc Collins and 4 others were tagged in Ed Parsons's album. View this post on Google+
Now that’s what I call a motivation to do a few reviews !
Now that's what I call a motivation to do a few reviews ! Reshared post from +Google Local London All aboard for a real 'underground dining' experience! We’re treating a lucky group of you to a delicious six-course #TubeDinner inside a 1967 Victoria Line carriage, hidden in one of Walthamstow’s best-kept secret museums. Although the …
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Missing Google Latitude ? Turn on G+ location sharing here: https://plus.google…
Missing Google Latitude ? Turn on G+ location sharing here: https://plus.google.com/settings/plus#location Embedded Link Google+ Google+ aims to make sharing on the web more like sharing in real life. Check out Circles, Events and Hangouts, just a few of the things we’ve been working on. This post has been reshared 2 times on Google+ View this …
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Viewers of BBC’s Top Gear, here is the “ghost” Spanish airport used…
Viewers of BBC's Top Gear, here is the "ghost" Spanish airport used as a test track.. Ciudad Real, Spain – Google Maps View this post on Google+
I’ve moved this blog Google+
Over the last few years I have posted here less and less, while I find myself posting much more on Google+ and Twitter. So as of today I’m moving my blog over to Google+. Follow me at +ed parsons to keep in touch.. I’ll see you there!
10 years ago today at 50,000 feet !
At just after 9:00 am on the 29th May 2003, I achieved a lifetime ambition and flew Concorde ! Concorde had six months of service remaining with British Airways so the rush was on for fellow Aviation geeks to organise the trip of a lifetime. The journey was perhaps the last occasion that I could describe as an example …
Inspire a moonshot not a blueprint ?
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to take part in the ImaGIne conference organised by the European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information in Dublin. The conference although not very well attended did contain both excellent presentations and perhaps unusually great discussions which really seemed to address some of the key challenges of using geospatial technology in Europe. A talk …
God Speed Nexus One…
A Nexus powered satellite to be launched today – fingers crossed, welcome to the age of the Maker Sat ? STRaND-1 (the Surrey Training, Research and Nanosatellite Demonstrator), is a shoe box sized satellite weighing just 4.3kg. It will launch into a 785km sun-synchronous orbit on ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from Sriharikota, India. STRaND-1 will also be the …
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 …
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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 …