I got a call from a old friend earlier this week, who pointed me in the direction of an IT Conversations podcast which I had missed. Like many of IT conversations programmes this was a recording of a conference session, in this case the Web 2.0 conference held last October, and the topic was a …
Thanks to Eddie and Ian at Snowflake who have written a plugin to their Go Publisher product, it is now possible to view, rather flat, Mastermap topo data in google earth – the secret behind the scenes here is our old friend GML. It was relatively easy for the guys a Snowflake (it took a …
NTL today announced that it will roll out 10Mbps broadband cable connections to its current customers at no extra cost. Great news – now if only their merger with telewest happens soon…
A great example of National Mapping knowledge transfer as surveyors from the London field office assist in the mapping of a new Nation as part of the BBC TV series “How to Start Your Own Country”
Inventor of podcasting Adam Curry has discovered the google maps api, in his latest Daily Source Code podcast he talks extensively on the subject and is clearly very excitied about the possibilites of using it along with GPS to produce “indie” mapping data and services. There seems to be a mainstream hype developing around google …
As I was in “the valley” today, on my way home from visiting Fujitsu in Sunnyvale I thought I would drop into the Apple campus in nearby Cupertino. I am please to confirm it still exisits despite Microsoft not having it on the imagery layer in MSN virtual earth. I have the t-shirt to prove …
I have left San Diego, and flown up to San Jose to meet up with the people at Fujitsu Siemens the people who build the tablet PC’s the OS field staff use. As always, enjoyed the ESRI conference, the whole web services message seems to be coming together now and it was good to see …
Had a couple of meetings today, then met up with some old Autodesk friends and wnet along to a few presentations yesterday. I was taken aback by the amount of new stuff especially in ArcSDE and database support in 9.2. As i said yesterday I was surprised how little emphasis was given in the plenary …
The first day.. and things to my mind are a little different from previous years.. Jack’s vision in terms of the Geoweb seems little changed from last year – the focus this year is on “managing the earth’ using GIS. Although no mention was made of the development of google maps, ESRI are clearly responding …
William Heath and the The Ideal Government Project blog are running a competition over the summer for people to build a mapping mashup application which displays any government dataset on free online mapping. OS is providing the prizes in the form of OS Select maps. Some great examples already including this example which maps recent …
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