Progress means more helicopters, FTW !
From the must read xkcd.com, seems others have caught the R/C helicopter bug.. Written and submitted from the Google Office,Zurich
Blobbed City Life
Just read a very interesting blog post by Mark Easton of the BBC on “Blobbing” the process of masking the identity of people from public imagery; while at the same time examining in the most extreme detail the life of “so called” celebrities. Mark makes a very good point as to how history will judge our decisions, …
Thoughts on Being Location Aware
I really enjoyed attending last nights mashup* – Being-Location-Aware Event in London’s Docklands, after a busy day with the Street View launch in the UK, it was great to have a few drinks amongst a crowd of geeks 🙂 Privacy was again a major topic of debate, even if the rather self-selecting audience felt is was less …
StateoftheMap 2009 Call for Papers
The call for papers for always one of the most interesting conference has just been announced. StateoftheMap 2009 is the conference to discuss all thinks to do with the ground breaking Open Street Map Project, and this year will be held in Amsterdam in July This is much more than a gathering of people who like to ride bikes …
Transport for London boards the mash-up bandwagon
As introduced by Christopher Osborne @osbornec on Twitter this morning (where else do you get news these days ?), Transport for London (TfL) the government organisation responsible for most transport in London have begun providing access to limited amounts of their transit data, via a simple web feed interface. TfL must be congratulated for this step, and by doing so using simple XML …
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Summer of Code 2009
Google have announced the 2009 Summer of Code programme. If you are an organisation which would like to get student help in moving forward your Open Source project now it the time to get involved. Last year 1000 students took part ,working on projects from 175 organisations, including OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Written and submitted from the …
OK if the AGI can change…
Last year I pretty much gave up on the AGI conference as it did not seem to be representative of the Geographic Industry I could see around me. However over the past few months my attitude has begun to change, finally I pushed into completely reversing my opinion my this communication.. Yes,this is a Twitter message from AGI conference organisers announcing a stream …
mashup* – Being Location Aware Event
I am going to be speaking at the mashup* – Being-Location-Aware Event in London on the 19th March, an event which I hope will really capture the current excitement around using location in both mobile and desktop applications. After many false starts, your location is finally easily available to application developers allowing them to create a …
History in Google Earth – Did you miss it ?
With last months launch of Google Earth 5.0 much “mainstream” interest was focused on the capability to view under the ocean, and of course to begin the search for the lost city of Atlantis 🙂 For many however, myself included, the most important new capability is the ability to view historic images from the Google archive of satellite and aerial imagery. …
AfricaMap – GSDI 2.0 ?
As highlighted by Keir on the excellent Google Maps Mania last week, AfricaMap is an interesting attempt to build a repository of geospatial data about Africa, developed by the Center for Geographic analysis at Harvard University. What is interesting about this site, is both the scope of the project and the approach taken. From decades many individuals, groups and organisations have been trying to develop Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) at …