One of my favourite books of the year so far has been the marvellous Geek Atlas by John Graham-Cumming. The book which details the locations of 128 places of scientific and technological importance is perfect for someone like me who travels a fair bit and on those rare occasions when I have some spare time …
A great post by Matthew Somerville on the mysociety.org blog, discusses the impact of Parliamentary constituencies changing and some of the political capital that is generated as a result. Transparency in this part of the democratic process will absolutely vital in the upcoming general election, and yes you guessed it although the boundaries are defined …
I had the honour to be in the audience for this talk given by one of the few people who can talk fist hand about the inspiring and important work carried out at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. Remember Bletchley Park urgently needs our help to remain open as a museum and memorial …
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Once again the mainstream media and the conservative (with a small c) elements of British Society are up in arms becasue Transport for London (TfL) have modified the iconic tube map, removing some fare zones and the very stylised representation of the Thames. The new map is certainly much less clutered than the previous version. …
Richard in his post at the OpenGeoData blog, highlights the work of Google’s Data Liberation Front which aims to make sure that user data hosted on Google servers can always be exported out for use in other services or applications. So what of Geodata, well contrary to popular opinion if you create a My Maps …
Mr Osborne over at his cloudsourced blog provides a taster to the Geomob thread at this months AGI conference along with details of a reduced day rate deal. This is really the reason I’m going along to the AGI this year, as you may remember I was disappointed with the introspection and backwards thinking demonstrated at …
While UK Local Authorities still struggle to provide public access to their geospatial data because of the bizarre OS rules on derived data, the residents of San Francisco have much rich data at their disposal. Following on from the federal data.gov portal launched earier this year, DataSF – DataSF is a local version providing access to …
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Mobilizy, the Austrian developers of the first mainstream Augmented Reality (AR) application for the Android Platform have been experimenting over the summer and have developed Wikitude Drive a simple navigation system with as your would expect a AR interface. As you can see from the youtube video it’s a interesting concept, and certainly something with great …
I have been quoted in a report from ZDNet Asia about the future for stand alone GPS devices. While I agree with the general point of the article in that stand alone GPS devices are not yet doomed, I think we are beginning to see just how useful location is when integrated with other information. …
I’m a happy user of a new app for the iPhone called RouteBuddy Atlas, a maps application for the iPhone which provides legal access to OS mapping (and note is obviously not to be confused with the native iPhone maps application, whose functionality it in no way replicates 🙂 ) I have long been a …
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