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 …
Yesterday, the OS ran the first terrafutures event, a one day workshop to try and bring together scientists of all types, sociologists and IT experts to look into the future and spot the trends in technology and society that will impact on the GI industry. Some of the key findings included the future pervasivness of …
Recently announced the Garmin Nüvi is a GPS device clearly inspired by the success of the iPod. The Nüvi as well as a GPS routefinder is also an MP3 player with pda like functionality including a world clock, currency converter, image viewer and add-on travel & language guide software. Looks like the Tom-Tom has some …
I have just come across geoTorrent.org a website offering links to geodata sets hosted using the bit-torent peer to peer network protocol. The idea of distributing large geodata datasets as small chucks is quite appealing and I have no doubt that when open geodata becomes more mature – this will be the obvious mechanism of …
So after months of speculation and delayed launch dates, the i-tunes phone is released – and its a lemon ! An ugly old Motorola phone, the MotoROKR phone does not allow you to download music via a mobile network, you cannot sync songs using bluetooth and it has a Motorola user interface – remember no …
Back at the end of June, the O’Reilly media Where 2.0 conference took place in San Francisco and saw presentations from Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo amongst others on their perspective of the expanding mainstream GI market. The first audio recording from this conference is now available online at the ITConversations website. The Past and Future …
David Sonnen captures very well the current “State of the Nation” as far as the GI industry is concerned in his Directions Magazine article Spatial Information Management (SIM) – Then, Now, Next . I think David is right to see the disruptive effect of “big guys” on the established GI industry – funny to think …
OK so I have surrived about 10 days without the internet, but the draw of the internet cafe was too much. So I find myself having a great cup of the best coffee portugal can provide while checking my email, and having a chat to a Aussie girl about the cricket. Amazing places internet cafes …
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