As a A-Level Physics student, I used to love reading New Scientist in the School Library – I could at least understand it.. maybe reading too much of it, resulted in my spectacular failure at the subject ? Still its good to see Ordnance Survey Research Labs joint research with Southampton University making this weeks …
As I have noted before, OS is interested in GeoDRM activities as a way of standardising how rights to access information and the transfer of those rights between individuals and groups is standardised as much as possible. Of course we also need to track developments in the more contentious area of data and IP protection …
The BBC News IT show this week highlights some applications of pictometry imagery. You may not be able to play the video outside of the UK I’m afraid, but a great PR piece from Pictometry. Interesting to see how imagery is used as an alternative to large scale topographic data where it is not available.. …
As Steve points out, Richard Fairhurst’s scanned database of OS New Popular Edition Maps on the 1930’s and 1940’s in now online at www.npemap.org.uk. Although the mapping is now out of copyright, Richard is claiming copyright over the scans and is licensing the data using the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 license. This is a fascinating …
Todays press release by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has picked up a lot of coverage in the mainstream press, with this mornings Today programme discussing the potential findings with reference to the great romantic English poets – its all because of Wordsworth apparently, that we attempt to find Tranquillity. While I appreciate …
This week I was interviewed by the guys at Very Spatial for their weekly podcast. Despite a few Skype problems, no doubt down to student enduced network issues, all worked in the end. To listen to this podcast or to subscribe to Very Spatial, follow this link. It’s well worth having a look through the …
The subject of GeoDRM something which OS like many other commercial data suppliers is very interested in developing has caused intense debate on the Geowanking mail list. This comes as no surprise as the term has been damaged by the “heavyweight” tactics of the likes of Microsoft and Apple in relation to the music download …
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With the UK mash-up day coming up at the end of the week, this blog post by J. LeRoy is very timely. It reports on the response of the Fire Deptartment of Seattle to a google maps mash-up of 911 calls, the dept. has now removed the feed replacing it with a jpeg image. The …
As is often the case the press have not quite got this story right, but pretty close. Although it may not match the perception of “the man on the street”, OS is a data business, and over the past 5 years since I have been working here, the volumes of data we deal with have …
Read more “Geospatial archiving – or how to backup 25,000 iPods”
So Google pays nearly £900m for YouTube, well done Chad and Steve !! But just imagine it they had attempted to get investment from the BBC’s Dragons Den programme instead of Sequoia Capital.. Chad and Steve – We have this great idea.. a site where people upload they home videos and then let everybody view …
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