Adena at All Points Blog reports on some very interesting news from the USGS, which seems to be beginning the process of outsourcing map production. New USGS Director Patrick Leahy is reported to be looking to outsource the production of maps in flood risk areas to state and local government and importantly commercial suppliers. This …
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Wired News reports that the Indian Government are concerned that Google Earth represents a security risk. Imagery clearly shows key government building in Delhi, Air-Bases etc.. When will government’s realise that the horse has already bolted here.. High Resolution imagery is available to anybody with a network connection, but without some local information or context …
Looks like a blackberry, runs like a blackberry but it’s a Nokia. In the stores next year the E61 has some impressive specs – Blackberry & ActiveSync Client – Build in Wi-Fi, as well as UMTS (3G) – Opera browser And it’s a phone ! Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
Like many ESRI shops who build “Enterprise” class applications we at the OS are increasing looking to use linux based servers from now on – and our vendor of choice at the moment is HP who have a nice range of AMD Opteron based Proliant servers. Nothing unusual in this I hear you say, indeed …
William A Slabbekoorn aka “the Cybarber” has produced a KML version of my “wheres ed” google local (note new name) mash-up, using a XSLT – the result is at members.home.nl/cybarber/geomatters/WheresEdParson.kml , I love the photo icons – Very Cool William !! This is just another example of how GI on the web is changing, geodata …
Jo of Mapping Hacks has responded to my call for her to attempt to collect detailed mapping to the specification of the OS without access to the survey grade GPS and photogrammetry, with the usual rhetoric… but Jo will you take up the challenge ? I think Jo actually accepts the need for the OS …
So many contrasts where to begin… but I have really fallen in love with India, despite the clear poverty visible on almost every street corner, the dynamism of this country is amazing. India is running an e-GOV programme which makes the efforts of the UK seem rather underwhelming, and although I think I still need …
This weekend I’m travelling to India to deliver a keynote presentation at Graticule the first International conference on positional technology and Location Intelligence to take place in India. Understandably perhaps the focus on these technologies has been in the west, however this is changing. India not only offers highly skilled engineers and scientists who are …
Jo Walsh reports on the Mapping Hacks website on the debate I attended at the society of cartographers conference on public access to data, and comments that the investments made on GPS and Photogrammetry by the OS is “viably unnecessary, easily outsourceable techno-toys.” OK Jo – why don’t you try and capture some data to …
You had better not take your laptop… Like many of my fellow tech workers in London, I carry my powerbook plus other kit in a rucksack and following the events of 7/7 have joked about how we must appear to others. This is no longer a joking matter however and the extent to which the …
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