For the last twenty years or so, every car I have owned has had an Apple sticker proudly displayed on the back window. For many years fellow Apple enthusiasts have expressed our devotion to the Mac and our membership of a small but we believe righteous minority by such tribal markings. Last week I took …
Sorting out the database behind www.edparsons.com, I came across this blog post from 2005. At the time I was asked by my then employers to remove it from the blog which I did, but rather than delete it I just set it to private, it’s now public. It’s really interesting how far the UK GI …
Last week I attended and spoke at the annual EMEA Google Faculty Summit at the Google offices in Zurich. The event brings together researchers and academic staff for a few days to present their work, talk to Google Engineers and for Google and academia to work together to developer common research interests. Most of the academics present …
This is something I have been waiting to see since the Google Earth API was introduced a few years ago. The Earth Knowledge Virtual Globe is a project which is creating an application with a selection of data layers as an alternative to the layers offered by default in the Google Earth client. All the …
First interesting paper of the day at #gisruk using flickr photos to identify geomorphological features – language analysis of tags # At last some CS at #gisruk HTML5 for web GIS from my friends at NUIM – GIS guys need to take note – this is the future ! #
Looking forward to attending #gisruk this year, meeting the brightest and best of Europe's GIS researchers! # Seems to be a accuracy of OSM meme at #gisruk confirms in my view the value of MapMaker moderation process and fixed data model #
Waiting in for @virginmedia senior engineer to visit – he has his own laptop so thats real progress ! # So despite having his own laptop, @virginmedia super engineer failed to show up – am I surprised ? # Thinking of starting a "Your iPhone knows what you are going to do next week" meme …
Last week location tracking almost hit the mainstream following Pete Walden’s presentation at the Where 2.0 conference, organised by O’Reilly who where also key in promoting the story.. Both Gary at www.vicchi.org and Peter at geothought.blogspot.com offer a more nuanced and thoughtful commentary than the near hysterical reactions of the blogosphere and tech press. At worst …
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He are some words of wisdom, originally written as I waited for a later flight to Dublin casued by my first flights aircraft going unserviceable as a result of the cargo door handle falling off ! Delay and cancellations are part of air travel, but due to some EU legislation (EU Regulation 261/2004) you should be able to …
I will happily admit that this post may only be of interest to my Teddington Readers, (Hi Gary !!) but this is just such an interesting video. It follows the route of the Trolleybus between Twickenham and Teddington on it’s first day of operation in May 1931. Trolleybuses, electric powered buses as you find in …
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