A sad reflection on that part of the British character that is so resistant to change… City of York council are called to account reports the BBC for using metric measurements on footpath markers. It seems that it is only the UK and the United States that continue to use miles and feet as measure …
Looks like I’m going to be having a busy September, following my vacation I’m back to talk at the Society of Cartographers Summer School in Cambridge and at a event we are holding at the OS called Terra future. The events although in many ways very different are both focusing in on the increasing use …
Tim Martin comments on the hype surrounding Google Earth, asking is google as much a hindrance as help to the GI industry? I think Tim is right to recognise some of the data quality issues apparent in both Google apps, but I think it is a mistake to see Google in any-ways trying to advance …
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As I metioned a week or so ago the BBC called as they were putting together a piece on Google Earth, well this morning Rory Cellan Jones produced this report (realplayer) for the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, the “must listen” breakfast show for the great and the good in the UK. No great insights.. …
Not to be outdone by the team from Southampton, Martin Daly “the Alpha Geek” at Cadcorp sent this screenshot to illustrate the point, that they are also able to parse Mastermap GML and produce KML data. It’s great to see the companies who have supported the standards in the past really been able to exploit …
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 …
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