Well from reading a couple of press releases the signs look hopeful… Both the OS and the Dept. of Communities and Local Government have announced the signing of the new Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA), a sole source long term contract for providing mapping data to all of the public sector. I’m sure this has not gone down …
Unfortunately I’m a few thousand miles away from trying this app but I do have my access key! Last week London finally got its bike hire scheme something that just cries out for a location aware real time application to help users. So just in time Little Fluffy Toys have released their widget for Android …
There has been much in the blogosphere, tech and even mainstream press written about the relative merits of Flash and it’s use compared to the up and coming shinny new standard of HTML 5. While nobody other than possibly Adobe denies that HTML will be core to much of the future web, today there are …
By popular request here is the presentation I gave at last week’s GI-Forum in Salzburg. A great conference which I recommend if you are able to attend next year, 1000 GI people in one of Europe’s most attractive cities = success ! Not sure the slides will make much sense on their own, but please …
If so, can you tell me what’s wrong with this answer taken from a question asked in the House of Lords via the excellent theyworkforyou website… UK: Coastline House of Lords Written answers and statements, 23 June 2010 Lord Laird (Crossbench) To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the length of the United Kingdom coastline in …
I finally got the chance to watch the Apple WWDC keynote last night in my living room on the Apple TV, now that statement qualifies me as an Apple fanboy in itself. I have seen many stevenotes over the year, even one in person at a Macworld in New York a few years ago, but …
A great early example of the value of the new TfL train prediction API, a map of the ‘Real time” locations of Tube Trains. Produced by MySociety ace Matthew Somerville a really neat demo and another example of the value of releasing government datasets, and in this case an example of an occasion where an API is …
Mapnificent LondonI have for a while called out for some new cartographic approaches to communicating information which make use of the radically different capabilities of electronic displays compared to paper. To be fair I suppose the palette of tools available to the online cartography have been limited, and the state of the art was probably …
I’m writing this sitting in the back of the room, waiting to make a presentation during the annual Space Show in Toulouse, the closest Europe comes to having a city whose sole export is technology Seems, like I have been running around almost constantly for the last month, but tomorrow I have made a little time for …
Not 300m from the site of one end of William Roy’s original baseline for the first Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, the modern Ordnance Survey yesterday held it’s annual business partner conference. Well for me it was a strange experience, sitting in the audience at an Ordnance Survey partner event (although Google is not a …
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