Last week location tracking almost hit the mainstream following Pete Walden’s presentation at the Where 2.0 conference, organised by O’Reilly who where also key in promoting the story.. Both Gary at www.vicchi.org and Peter at geothought.blogspot.com offer a more nuanced and thoughtful commentary than the near hysterical reactions of the blogosphere and tech press. At worst …
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He are some words of wisdom, originally written as I waited for a later flight to Dublin casued by my first flights aircraft going unserviceable as a result of the cargo door handle falling off ! Delay and cancellations are part of air travel, but due to some EU legislation (EU Regulation 261/2004) you should be able to …
I will happily admit that this post may only be of interest to my Teddington Readers, (Hi Gary !!) but this is just such an interesting video. It follows the route of the Trolleybus between Twickenham and Teddington on it’s first day of operation in May 1931. Trolleybuses, electric powered buses as you find in …
Andrew has a simple demonstration of the usefulness of the mapping functions of Google Fusion tables on his Blog . A nice combination of online resources and tools that take mash ups to the next level.. Think late 1990’s MapInfo or ArcView delivered from the cloud.. Written and submitted from home (51.425N, 0.331W)
In the past I have been unfairly accused of “disliking” cartographers, this has never been the case. I have however been critical of the discipline of Cartography concentrating too much on the processes and techniques of “paper mapping” not recognising the potential of new techniques which make use of the dynamic nature of onscreen display. …
Next time you are stuck back in seat 46G with 30 inches between you and the passenger in front/behind you for the next 10 hours just close your eyes and imagine that rather than flying to San Francisco or Singapore you are flying between Westray (WRY) and Papa Westray (PPW) in the Scottish Orkney Islands. This is the worlds …
Another Job opportunity to join the growing Geo team at Google in London, a very technical role helping to deploy Google Earth and Maps server technology for use within organisations around Europe. The Job specs are here, as always feel free to leave me a message if your would like to know more… Written and submitted from the Google Offices, London …
Kenneth Field the departing Course Director for the Kingston GIS degree progammes has written a nice short history of the important role played by Kingston University in the development of the GIS industry in the UK. It’s published as part of esri’s best practice in GIS series and is available to download for free as …
As a fellow of the esteemed organisation that helped sponsor his voyage of exploration I’m delighted that today’s special Google logo celebrates the birthday of Sir Ernest Shackleton, Explorer. Written and submitted from home (51.425N, 0.331W)
The not unexpected news that Nokia have finally given up on it’s Symbian mobile phone operating system is still sad news. Symbian owes its existence to the plucky (yes I know a cliche) British firm of Psion, original develops of computer games for Sinclair and developers of the first generation of PDAs. Needing a relatively …
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