TOIDS R US

Hats off to the Snowflake gang, who as part of their moving card have let us know their new TOID !! One day we will all know this information – well OK maybe not 🙂 but its good to see the idea of using feature identifiers communicated in a fun way. Written and submitted from …

Business model wars

I lead a session at the Ordnance Survey Partner conference last week discussing our future geoweb services plans, and not surprising the main topic of discussion was business models. Nobody in the industry today really knows what will happen in the market, I in the past have often drawn parallels with the download music market …

Don’t mess with the map !

Its interesting to observe the amount of concern, it appears, has been generated by the BBC TV decision to change how they display their weather maps. Comments have focused on the use of brown rather than green to represent “Land” on the graphics, the use of animation rather than symbols to represent rain or snow …

Nokia releases Sentient Computing app

Nokia this week released a mobile phone application that perhaps paves the way for other ‘Sentient Computing” applications. Sentient Computing uses location as the underlying framework to deliver user centric applications – the key here is that location information is implicit not explicit as in traditional LBS applications (there are no maps !!!). Sentient Computing …