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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
It was all looking so good.. As announced in the budget day strategy document, the Ordnance Survey was amongst others things asked to focus its corporate resources at increasing the amount of innovation around it’s products and services. Last week the OS launched their Geovation website, and have opened up somewhat their OpenSpace API – all very positive.. But then this …
From Jeff Thurston at the Vector One blog, news that the Dutch operation of Landmark Information Group have won a case at the Dutch High Courts asserting that they should be able to access environment information from the City of Amsterdam without high license costs or limitations to its reuse. This is an interesting development because it is an area where there is little case …
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