Yesterdays announcement, that the Government in looking into a system of road usage charging has resulted in the usual doom vendor calls of another government IT disaster in the making.. it is easy to agree with this based on the track record of delivery of big IT projects so far, but here I believe there …
So the rumours were true as reported by cNet, Apple are switching from IBM to Intel processors for future Mac’s. Much jeering of the Mac fundamentalists no doubt, but it is just the CPU in the box – it appears from Apple CEO Jobs that MacOS X has always been compiled for Intel chips in …
Depending upon your browser (Mozilla and firefox see most reliable) you should see my favicon displayed next to the url in your browser. Favicons have been around for a while and are one of those areas where standards are a little fuzzy.. I spend a couple of hours yesterday evening getting the icon to appear …
Great piece by Adena and Joe of Direstions Magazine, “An Open Letter to GIS/Geospatial Software Companies” – a very perceptive and I believe accurate view of the GI industry today – for me two take-aways “simple is good” and “data in king”.
As this announcement suggests at some point in 1998 we may finally see the last Landline tile leave Southampton on a CD marking the end of the first generation of digital mapping in Great Britain. At that point Landline as a nationally complete product will be 13 years old and based on a production process …
I have just download the latest update of my favourite podcast client ipodderX, which amongst other new features offers the ability to embed any digital media within a podcast. The ability to add any enclosure to a podcast has been there from the beginning of podcasting many months ago !!! A podcast is just a …
Well with no great surprise the BBC has given into the 4,000 critical viewers (out of 10 million or so) and a few politicians looking for publicity and changed it’s weather maps. The animated fly around the British Isles has been retained thankfully as this is the most effictive part, but have been ‘slowed” as …
After a massive amount of work behind the scenes involving many Ordnance Survey, ODPM, Local Authority and Royal Mail staff a solution to the creation of maintaining a national address database has been announced. For those not aware of the scale of the problem, many places in Britain that don’t get mail delivered to them …
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 …
Fellow geeks stop reading this is not for you !!! Vodafone last week introduced a range of mobile phones designed for the technology challenged user, who wants their phone to be – well just a phone, no camera, no mp3, no internet etc. I am a big fan of good simple design, and again we …
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