Let my plumber Jez build your SDI..
The 11th Spatial Data Infrastructure Conference was held last week in Rotterdam, and like many SDI conference the focus of presentations and the profile of attendees was largely from the pubic sector, and in many cases public sector data producers. Many of the sessions investigated in depth, progress to date across the many local, regional and …
Just think of the guy who has to pedal..
We have been asking people to vote on the tourist destination that would most like to see covered by Street View in the UK. In many cases the destinations short listed with help from Visit Britain, are not accessible with a car, hence these destinations will have the street view imagery captured using one of …
SPOT Image : A ambitious vision
Way back when I was a lowly Masters student studying Remote Sensing, one of the most exciting developments at the time was the availability of imagery from the new French satellite SPOT. At the time this was a huge leap forward with 10m resolution imagery captured by a solid state push broom scanning system, it represented as big a …
iPhone OS 3.0 loves location.
As Brady from O’Reilly pointed out early this week, the new iPhone 3.0 software and new iPhone 3G S have some major improvements that will further accelerate the development of exciting new location aware applications. The iPhone now joins the two Android powered HTC phones in having a high quality networked assisted GPS, a digital …
My Presentation from Being Digital
I have has a number of requests to share my very short slide desk from this weeks, Being Digital Event.. so here it is – Congratulations to Simon, Tony and Emma on a great event. Written and submitted from the SPOT Image User Conference, Toulouse.
Being Digital means being interactive.
Next week I will be joining a panel on the “value” of Location at Being-Digital ’09 at Centre Point in London. The topic of course is an interesting one, but for me the event format is perhaps more notable. Being-Digital is a “conference without PowerPoint’s”, instead there are round-tables of industry experts discussing hot topics …
OS faces large scale competition
It was always going to happen, in fact there have been many rumours over the years of similar projects, but today the UKMap website has gone live announcing the first serious competition for Ordnance Survey large scale data. It is still early days for UKMap, which although in many ways similar to OS Mastermap is …
OS Strategy Event video
For those of you like myself, not invited to the OS New Strategy Event, the OS have posted a video summary on YouTube. That in itself is progress of course .. Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
SDI in a paragraph.. take note Europe !
While the alpha geeks of the geospatial world were meeting at Where2.0 in San Jose, something really significant happened in Washington. From the FAQ of the Obama administrations new website data.gov launched today.. “What are some resources for viewing geospatial datasets? The geospatial datasets available on Data.gov are provided in up to three open file …