BA and Google combine their offerings in a really interesting way with BA’s latest world offers campaign. I like that the viewer really gets a sense of “where” destinations actually are, using GE to “fly” between them, something often lost in our geography challenged generation. Got me thinking however, whose brand is using the others? …
Tele Atlas clearly get one of the key elements of “web 2.0”, engage with your customer and make them part of your solution. Their beta Map Insight website allows users to identify and correct errors in Tele Atlas data. This is a win-win solution, the data provider identifies and corrects errors that actually matter to …
As both James and Jo blogged, the complete series of USGS Quad series DRG maps were taken hostage this week and then released following the payment of $1600 to the Free the Maps website. Now we are thought the data was free right? – well yes but.. Some states made the data available free to …
Not when it comes to Geographic Information I would argue… Adena very well I think identified the massive interest in imagery demonstrated by the vendors at this years ESRI UC exhibition in her latest directions magazine editorial. Imagery is great as context to other types of spatial information, but on its own I believe it’s …
You can feel the pain… somebody at the cabinet office has fallen foul of copyright issues with last weeks release of a public information film, silicon.com reports.. Another oil tanker with steering problems ? Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
Another one of those things I have been meaning to do for ages, was to implement GeoRSS in the feed for edparsons.com. This has been more frustrating that I would have liked, but it now works. Why the frustration, firstly there are three favours of GeoRSS, Simple and GML which you will find documented at …
In an attempt to reduce my Carbon footprint, well for a day or two, I’m trying travelling to work on the train and so far the experience is not that bad, but there is still some way to go before time on the train is truly productive. I really need a power supply to plug …
Is Peter Cochrane turning into an “Old Git” ?, he comments in his silicon.com blog this week, that the internet is suffering this summer from all those kids at home downloading mp3, movies and games from bittorrent and generally spreading trojans and malware as they go… Not sure I have seen any evidence of this, …
Dominic has a very interesting post over at geometrybag, noting the lack of UK centric content in the dozen or so UK based blogs that deal with Geography and GIS. Dominic is on to something here, there are many topics that are of interest to a UK specific readership beyond OS bashing of course 🙂 …
Following on from the success of last years Terra Future event, this year TBL will be the keynote speaker at Terra future 2006 the Ordnance Survey meeting focused on Research and innovation in the use of Geographic Information. We are very pleased to have Tim presenting as OS has had an active research group looking …
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