The Treasury has spoken.. (that in itself gives you a sense of where this might be heading !!) From the Treasury Operational Efficiency Programme report published yesterday.. “The OEP has concluded so far that Ordnance Survey needs to be more customer-focused and commercially driven. The Government is therefore publishing a new commercial strategy for the Ordnance …
Whilst hunting through YouTube for a video to use in a presentation, I came across this video. If I remember rightly this was the first time a viral video was produced by any part of the UK government, I might be mistaken on that, but the video was not met with universal acclaim in Southampton.. Shame a …
Its great to see my own local authority making great use of Google Maps, as pointed out by the Mapperz team , Richmond Council have produced a series of maps using Google Maps to illustrate most of their local services, including a pet subject of mine Recycling sites. There is much to be said for a very simple approach like this, the …
A picture taken from near the Google Offices in Dublin.. Lansdowne Road making good progress !
On the train home last night, I caught up on this weeks podcast of the BBC Radio World Service programme, Digital Planet a regular on my iPhone powered commute these days. As has often been the case recently there was something of interest to Geo people in the form of a report on a LIDAR survey of …
OK to us Brits it’s a handbag, but this techcruch story is a interesting one both highlighting a technology story and a how old media deals with a technology story story ! A lady in silicon valley loses her bag, but because in it there is a phone which is running Latitude, it is …
Read more “Latitude finds lost purse.. world a slightly better place !”
Interesting challenge, Can you do simple spatial analysis without access to a GIS or raw data ? I received this email today, what do you think ? “Hope you are well – I am now 18 months into a career in renewable energy and am the “expert” in GIS in this company. We work with Imass (my old …
Ken Field at Kingston University has been asked by ESRI to write an article on the history of GIS at Kingston for publication in the next ArcNews. I’m must admit I did not realise that the GIS course is 20 years old this year, and as the worlds first undergraduate course in GIS this is something to celebrate. So if you are a …
The irony of this, surely needs comment. So two upstanding citizens of Broughton (one of Milton Keynes “villages”) flag down a passing Street View car, have a chat with its driver and tell him to be on his way as they (on behalf of the rest of the village I assume) don’t want their privacy infringed by …
On Friday evening, I went along to the latest meeting of Geomob the developer community event created by Christopher Osborne focused on developments in what used to be called Location Based Services, but which now more sensibly people recognise as mobile applications of GEO technologies. The key difference from the old days (2 years ago …
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