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 …
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 …
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 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 …
Although we GI people are very keen on GML our own XML, we all realise that XML is making much bigger impacts in the wider IT world. One great example I have come across as a result of my recent upgrade to Tiger is XMPP the XML description used by Jabber, a cross-service instant messaging …
Just listened to a great radio programme which talked about the Soviet Military efforts to map the UK in the Cold War. The BBC are streaming the programme here for the next week. The story was also picked up by The Times. Here is an example of the type of mapping the Soviets produced for …
So Autodesk makes other acquisition to add to its GIS portfolio, in this case C-PLAN the Swiss developer of municipal applications built on Oracle Spatial. In my time at Autodesk C-PLAN were an excellent partner in the German speaking parts of Europe, with very good solutions using Autodesk Map and MapGuide linked to a single …
We are running a number of large Oracle Spatial projects at Ordnance Survey, which are part of our major investment programme to update key elements of our back office systems for managing our geodata. This week it appeared that one of our Oracle contractors was to be pulled off the project to work elsewhere (you …
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