Expected to be announced at cebit next week a new generation of tomtom navigation systems will bring a larger screen, and the ability to play mp3 files downloaded via a pc application, which will also sync new mapping and points of interest databases. Think of iTunes for maps!! So device convergence continues…. Written and submitted …
In these days of shabby reporting of technology stories in the mainstream media, it’s really refreshing to see the BBC’s Newsnight reporter owning up to writing a poor story on BitTorent and putting things right with a well argued online article addressing the issue with more balance. Now if only the media could get the …
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My hero as a six year old growing up in south west london, Peter Osgood the ‘King of Stamford Bridge’ made nearly 400 appearances for the Chelsea and scored 150 goals, but will always be remembered for the winning 1970 FA Cup and 1971 Cup Winners’ Cup runs.
There has been much comment around the GI blogosphere about the Microsoft Local Live teams latest development a “street” interface Although a little difficult to drive (hint – use the shift key to stick to the roads) it is great fun ! This is a really interesting highly interactive interface development, and is yet another …
I came across a great video last night at the tao of mac blog, what if the Microsoft package design team was responsible for creating the iPod box.. The video (beware wmv format) is funny but contains a really powerful message, how often do we in the geospatial industry over complicate the design of our …
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As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, The AGI Technical SIG is organising a meeting in Cambridge on the 27th April, there is now a detailed agenda. The use of Open-Source software has become increasingly prevalent in many areas of information technology. For example, the majority of web sites run on open-source web server software …
Earlier this year I was a guest on a BBC radio programme looking into Geospatial technology, one of the topics of debate was the growing industry of tracking. Now the BBC has followed this up on their World Service Programme Click this week. Although the report perhaps overplays the accuracy of mobile phone based tracking …
I have always had a great deal of time for Sanjay Kumar and his team behind the excellent Asian GIS magazine, GIS Development, and was very happy to contribute an article for their embedded GIS issue. I don’t think GIS Development and the geospatial activities taking place in Asia, and in India and the Middle …
The most talked about conference of last year, was Where 2.0 and organisers O’Reilly have now opened the 2006 Conference for registration, this year a few miles south in San Jose. Well worth a visit for the non traditional GI industry view of the world.
Over the next day or so you will see press releases announcing that Ordnance Survey has signed up to be the sole agent for Pictometry in Great Britain. Pictometry is the technology that fuses oblique aerial photography, with orthomodels and geospatial feature data to produce a roamable intelligent images from which you can interrogate spatial …
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