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 …
For the last 15 years the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI) have been working hard to co-ordinate national and local governments, NGO’s, international institutions and other organisations to develop local, national, regional and then hopefully one day a global GIS database along with the polices to access it. Last week I attended and made …
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Free Wifi on the bus First group in Wales are installing wifi on their route between Cardiff and Swansea, something that the Google commuter buses have had for a while in California, really useful and a first in the Uk I think. Two Mobiles.. then you may be a Terrorist I don’t know many people …
Mano and Pamela present the first in a series of “hands-on” videos on various aspects of the Google Geo products, this first video is brilliant, a really down to earth discussion of how to create and manilpulate KML in both Google Earth and Google Maps. Almost everybody will learn something from watching this, from newcomers …
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