Maposaurus how did I miss you !
I can’t believe I had not come across this video before, from a 2007 Superbowl advert from Garmin, the Maposaurus ! Happy Friday everyone !! Written and submitted from the Google Offices, London (51.495N, 0.146W)
Has the SDI community turned the corner ?
Yesterday I made a presentation at the 13th GSDI Conference in Quebec (thanks to Geoff for his commentary), it was only a flying visit but I left in a more positive frame of mind that I expected. The high level message of my presentation was, we need to think more about the I in SDI e.g. infrastructure, …
The half-life of an LBS app..
Is around 5 years ?? Well I would estimate that is the case from the imminent closure of Plazes, one of the earliest Location Sharing applications developed back in 2004. I used Plazes on and off for a few years starting on my first real smartphone the Nokia N95 and for a while it powered …
Parallax on maps
Once upon a time I was a young teaching assistant teaching Aerial Photography Interpretation, and one of the aspects that I found difficult to demonstrate was Parallax, the displacement of high features such as towers in photographs. You will see this today when looking at some of the images in Google Earth which have not been corrected to remove the …
NRE App – just wrong !
Today National Rail Enquires have released a free iPhone app for real time train information. Hang-on you may say, I though that app already existed.. well it does ! For the last few years National Rail Enquires (NRE) have been licensing at some considerable cost it’s information to independent software developers for them to develop their own …
Google Geography Teacher institute coming to Dublin and London..
After successful events in the US two Google Geo Teachers Institutes are to be held on June 13 and 14 in Dublin, and June 20 and 21, 2012 in London. Both events will be held at the local Google office. The two-day events are free and designed to help teachers get the most from Google’s geography-related products and …
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Google Research Awards : Two weeks and counting..
The deadline for our next round of Google Research Awards is 11:59pm PDT on April 15, 2012. The Research Awards are one-year awards structured as unrestricted gifts to universities to support the work of world-class full-time staff members at top universities around the world. Member of academic staff can apply for Research Awards by submitting a proposal …
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8bit maps..
The retro computing meme continues to gain momentum, just because you are restricted to 8bit computing, there is no reason you should miss out on using Google Maps, so today a new tile set designed for use by the Nintendo Entertainment System has been released. Happy Memories ? I was more of a Sinclair Spectrum man …
App Engine for Academics
As the geospatial world moves every closer to the mainstream IT, the potential of “Cloud” based technology to share mapping data and provide distributed processing for spatial analysis is increasing relevant to academics and researchers working in higher education. Yesterday Google announced a programme to allow academics use of Google App Engine for their research projects. App Engine is the service …
Beyond the pin..
The redesigned Google Maps Developers site is a great resource not only for documentation for the now numerous API’s but also a great showcase of how developers have brought mapping to their sites. Of particular interest to me are the case studies from the creative agencies where mapping and in particular Street View has resulted in some really cool sites.. forget pins on a …