You got kidnapped by something that goes on a salad
If like me you love Family Guy, you will love this, and if you don’t find it funny , well it’s an interesting business model ! Written and submitted from the Google Office, London.
Context based computing
I’ve been thinking over the last few weeks that at last LBS (Location Based Services) is becoming a real market, what with the release of iPhone 2.0 and the imminent release of the first Android phone with its location platform. It has taken much longer then any of us would have expected, but applications using …
Semantics and the GeoWeb
I went along to a very interesting and well delivered presentation in front of it must be said a rather disappointing audience at the British Computer Society in London yesterday evening. “Make Mashups Correct, Complete, Relevant and Revisited” was a presentation originally given by Jonathan Lowe of Giswebsite LLP at Where 2.0, and as Jonathan …
Palin for President ?
A heartbeat away? no not that Palin I mean this one. From http://www.michaelpalinforpresident.com/ Written and submitted from the Google Office, London.
Anybody else remember this ?
Although my first computer was the famous and popular Sinclair Spectrum, the first computer I actually used was this.. The Research Machines 380Z, was designed by RM for the schools market, it was never a good looking machine, or anywhere near as successful as the BBC Micro or Apple II, but I will always have …
Cartography is dead, long live the map makers
Seems like only last year, ah yes it was last year, that the bored press hits upon it annual “shock horror – nobody can read maps” story. This year there is a slightly different spin, due to the input of the British Cartographic Society (BCS) complaining that nobody is creating maps like they used to.. Modern online maps and satnavs …
Where is the Path updated.
From the Mapperz blog, news that Bill Chadwick has added the ability to use the Google Earth plugin to his excellent “Where is the Path” application. For a long time this has been in my mind the best OS OpenSpace API site, allowing users to visualise routes using both the excellent OS maps and Google …
Cartography and the power of the image
Lisa and I sat down last night and watched the excellent first epsiode of a new BBC series Britain for Above, which uses beautiful aerial photography to illustrate what can best be described as the “Geography of Britain”. This looked fantastic in HD (Virgin media managed to key the one HD channel they supply working …
The economic half life Geodata
At the ESRI UC Executive submit this weekend, Dirk Kempthorne the US Secretary of the Interior announced that the 35 year old archive of Landsat Imagery held by the USGS would be made available for free public access via the web. Of course how federal data is made available in the US has always been …
Links for 30 July 2008
Placespotting A interesting idea, a simple game that works like a visual crossword puzzle, uses the Google Maps infrastructure to create a zoomed in image of an area which you must identify from a global maps using the clue provided. So for example, this place is.. In the heart of Europa, but not EU This bridge is next to a famous wooden …