Excellent news from the Free our Data campaign blog, David Rhind well respected in the UK GI industry, and ex-DG of the Ordnance Survey is to be the new Chair of the Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information. His insider knowledge will be very valuable in moving the debate of making public sector information more …
Emerging Mass Market Geo Standards Andrews Turners excellent presentation to last weeks OGC Technical Committee meeting. Ask yourself, how many of these technologies you knew / could explain, many of these will be important to the GI industry over the next few years. Sokwanele With the continued concern over the election held last weekend, the …
There was only every going to be one winner ! Very entertaining online debate featuring Fake Steve Jobs Wifi no more.. Interesting article on silicon.com, I must admit I don’t spend as much time wifi hunting as I used to before getting my 3 dongle. Dual Maps from Map Channels Very neat multiple API site …
I’ve spent much of this week along with some of the other guys from Google at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Technical Committee meeting in St. Louis. KML is hopefully just a few weeks away from becoming an adopted standard, and the OGC as an community I’m pleased to say, is increasingly taking interest in …
Kings College London Geodata Portal One of the most comprehensive collections of environmental data rendered using Google Earth. Explanation of Tech, using paper Have you seen the great video explaining how My Location works on youTube, it was produced by Seattle based Common Craft who have published a series of similar videos on their site, …
It has taken me a while to get round to commenting on the Trading Funds Report as I have been travelling, and it’s 150 pages long !! It is a very important document in many ways, for the first time there is a well researched analysis from economists on the impact of different funding models …
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POSIPIX – Geo-referenced Stock Photos With the geo-tagging of photos trend really taking off, a neat service for those looking for stock photos organised by place.. limited to a few cities but a cool idea. Thanks to Sanjay for the link 10 must have aps for your Symbian Phone Nice to see Google well represented, …
The Geospatial Special Interest Group is hosting a talk on the Guardian Free our Data campaign next month, by Michael Cross. Should be an interesting meeting, the campaign has done a great job in highlighting the issue of accessibility to geospatial information in the UK in particular, but political progress has been slow, and it …
Much like the Google Android platform, yesterdays annoucement from Apple includes news of a Location API as part of the iPhone OS which will allow third parties to develop location based applications, and most importantly enable any iphone application to make use of location. Seen alongside Android there is now a critical mass of developers …
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Digital Geography Presentations Slides from the excellent CASA,UCL and NCeSS Day last month. Call for more mobile masts Some sense in the Mobile Phone debate from someone who should know.. Lost in Spatial A new Geospatial blog from my old friend Martin Daly, CTO of Cadcorp – Danger Will Robinson, Danger!! TripTouch A nice mash-up …
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