More examples of Flash Maps
A good selection of Flash Election Maps from Kevin Lynch (Chief Software Architect) at Macromedia and some interesting comments on the Adobe acquisition.
Must hear – The Triumph of Technology
Just caught the latest of Reith 2005 lectures on Radio 4 delivered by Lord Broers, fantastic stuff looking at the impact of Technology on society and how innovation takes place. You can listen on line at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2005/ and for a week after each lecture download to podcast. Makes you proud of the BBC !! Written …
What happens to SVG now ?
With todays purchase of Macromedia by Adobe – what is the future for SVG. For me Adobes support of SVG was a lifelife to lukewarm support from the rest of the industry which supported flash as a platform for developing interactive graphic applications. SVG offers potentially much more than flash for developing data driven applications …
BBC Election Flash map
The BBC today posted an interesting Election map contianing candidate and constituency details for the upcoming election. Its always intersting to see a non-GIS approach to a developing a mini-site like this. I think we have a lot to learn as a industry here from the media on understanding user needs. Also another Flash based …
More on Open Geodata
I went along yesterday to the Open Knowledge Forum meeting on Open Geodata in London. Overall I was very impressed by the debate, apart from a couple of exceptions we seem to be moving the arguement away from the simple “free data good, charging for data bad” mantra – in particular Roger Longhorns’ presentation was …
Mac OS 10.4 “Tiger” to ship April 29
The Apple website turns black !! The latest version of the best desktop operating system Mac OS Tiger is set to ship within weeks, priced at £89. Look for special events at the AppleStore Regent Street.
Is that a gadget in your pocket …
Silicon.com reports that the average London commuter carry’s £500 ($1000) worth of electronics with them on their journey to work. It’s easy to see how this all adds up, and I’m often packing a mobile phone, blackberry, ipod and powerbook whenever I travel. What ever happened to device consolidation most of the above devices functions …
Open Source mapping in the press
Once again the issue of “free” and Open Source mapping has been raised by the Guardian , as always a number of good points are made along with a few Gilligan-isms.. The main thrust of the piece is about the potential of open source, community produced mapping data with interviews with representatives of the Mappinghacks …
Would you like a iPod with that..
No surprises but the 1,650 first year students at Duke University supplied with a ‘free” iPod to help with their studies are not using them as hoped for to enhance their academic studies – no they are using them to listen to music – shock !! A few language students are using them to play …
Back-up or else
Spent a lot of yesterday trying to recover our neighbours teenage boys ibook and then his ipod following a hard disk corruption. Quite a lot of data was lost in both places as a result of some damaged sectors on the ibooks hard disk. The disk problems needed a reformat and re-install of OS X …