Merry Christmas!!
No postings for a couple of days, Merry Christmas everybody !!
2005 The message of the year – “It’s the content – stupid”
I knew there was a reason why I worked for a government organisation.. from tomorrow I’m on holiday for two weeks – time to catch up on some reading, DVD’s and to try out building a ruby on rails application !! Preparing for the holidays got me in a reflective mood looking back over the …
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Galileo Hype
Adena at All Points Blog points out the rather exaggerated reports in the UK computing press about the upcoming lanuch of Giove-A a micro-satellite developed in Guildford. Rather than be used my mobile phone users to locate cinema listings !!! Giove-A has just one important job to do.. Giove (Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element)-A is designed …
BBC opens up its news archive
Continuing the excellent online developments at the BBC, its News Archive site has been launched this week. It allows users to download 80 video clips of major news events for use with their own non-commerical projects. While the technology behind this is interesting and of course the content is fantastic, what I think is most …
Google Earth for the Mac
Appleinsider report that the Mac OS X port of Google Earth is on the way.. Seems to be a straight port of the windows version, although the claims made by Appleinsider that the imagery will be improved, must be false.
Why Google Earth is not used for instrument landings..
Jeff Thurston at Vector One has come up with one of my favourite Google Earth images of the year. All those hours learning about geometric correction and orthrectification were not wasted !
The Wikipedia Wars – what does it mean for geodata?
You may have picked up on the debate bouncing around the net on the problems Wikipedia is suffering. Wikipedia, for those back from the desert island is the community based encyclopaedia that has been seen as one of the great success stories of the web. The problems which hit the news last week have focused …
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When is a map not a map.. when it’s Mastermap
It’s funny how sometimes you can have a couple of conversations with people, which all seem to be coming from the same perspective but are unrelated. This happened to me last week in talking to a few people about Mastermap and peoples perception of it. Mastermap was launched almost exactly four years ago and has …
Snowflakesoft and the butterfly effect
Today I delivered the keynote presentation at the first Snowflake Software User Conference. Snowflake for those who don’t know are a small UK company set up by a couple of ex-Ordnance Survey people who specialise in developing XML applications for the GI industry. Although a small team, the work that Snowflake do has had a …
Peter Cochrane on GPS
Interesting post by Peter Cochrane noting the reliance people have on GPS navigation as it becomes more widespread. As noted in this blog before, the potential result could be that users perception of location and distance change as geograhphical knowledge is replaced by the female voice of the navigation system. As Peter notes this may …