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GSDI 10 – Despite best intentions, slow progress but a new outlook ?

by Ed ParsonsData Policy, GIS, SDI March 2, 20084 Comments

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 …

Links for 27 Feb 2008

by Ed ParsonsLINKS February 27, 20086 Comments

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 …

Quick and Dirty KML with Mano and Pamela

by Ed ParsonsGoogle Earth, Google Maps February 25, 20082 Comments

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 …

Links for 21 Feb 2008

by Ed ParsonsGIS February 21, 2008One Comment

Airport Security Another place not recommended to run Windows USGS Tele Atlas inside An interesting announcement from the ESRI federal user conference, USGS maps in the future will use TA map data, another step towards the mapping operations of the USGS moving to the commercial sector ? GeoWeb 2008 Student Contest Always one of the …

Digital Geography in a Web 2.0 World

by Ed ParsonsGoogle Earth, Google Maps, web 2.0 February 21, 2008Comments are Disabled

I went along today to an excellent showcase of the academic worlds take on Web 2.0 approaches and neogeography. Organised by the team at CASA at UCL the event attracted a large crowd for a one day event to London’s Barbican Centre. Although I was only able to attend the afternoon the presentations I attended …

London Web 2.0 map

by Ed ParsonsGoogle Maps, web 2.0 February 19, 2008Comments are Disabled

Interesting “My Map” by techcrunch uk, locating Web 2.0 startup in London, seems like Shoreditch is still the place to be.. View Larger Map Written and Submitted from the Google Office, London.

Links for 18 Feb 2008

by Ed ParsonsLINKS February 18, 20082 Comments

Unhackable A nice geeky cover version Bob Ricci “Unhackable”. OGC and GopherCan OGC W*S services be compared to Gopher (Who remembers Gopher) ? Interesting argument, I think I agree although WMS could just be the exception. Does that mean SDI efforts will end up like Veronica ? OS Openspace Example One of the first OS …

The point when your kids show you things on the web..

by Ed ParsonsThoughts February 15, 2008One Comment

Seemed to have reached that point this week, when my kids (aged 10 and 8 ) pointed out this youtube video as the greatest thing they had every seen, and the point of much playground discussion. As a lover of all thing to do with aviation I had to agree. Compliments to SAC Dean Tabreham, …

The Mobile Future

by Ed ParsonsAndroid, LBS, Mobile February 11, 2008Comments are Disabled

We can expect to see numerous stories from Barcelona this week as the The Mobile World Congress 3GSM as was takes place, and is the focus of much of the industry interest. As we all increasingly access the network online, shows like this are becoming more important, the battleground for market share is moving from …

LBS workshops come to Teddington

by Ed ParsonsLBS, Thoughts February 7, 2008Comments are Disabled

I don’t normally advertise these type of courses, however in this case I am happy to make an exception due to location. City University are running a State of the Art in Location Based Services 2008 masterclass, on March 5th before the KTN event ‘Location Based Services 2008 – LBS in the Public Sector‘ on …