Last week I presented at the “Location Business” summit in Amsterdam, and it was interesting to reflect on just how far the LBS market has developed over the years. One of the points I made was that we are on familiar ground, it seems every year since about 2001 has been the “year of location”, …
Jeff Jarvis author of “What Would Google Do” and co-presenter of the This Week in Google podcast, has a great blog post today on his Buzz Machine blog, on the German perspective on privacy. Without doubt,within Europe, Germany seems to have the greatest concerns with regards to privacy and so far much of the debate …
Great to see Stanfords one of the great tradtional homes of cartography embracing the web as a channel and making the most of the recent changes at Ordnance Survey. Like many of you this Adwords campaign may be appearing alongside your gmail, or web search results. Not all OS Maps now free – brilliant. To …
Courtesy of last weeks drop of Ordanace Survey Open Data, the Westminster electoral boundaries in Google Earth. It’s amazing to think that such a key dataset was not easily accessible until so recently. Without doubt this is just the type of data set that the “free our data” movement was calling to be made freely available. The type of innovation that comes from …
I have had a couple of questions about how the free OS data is licensed, here is the license which as you can see is basically a creative commons attribution license. This confirms there are no derived data issues. In fact this license makes OS Opendata more “open” than Openstreetmap. Written and submitted from the Where 2.0 …
Not a normal day in this office then… A very important day in the history of Ordnance Survey, from later on today it really will be possible to download free OS geodata from www.data.gov.uk, and www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendata. This is close to the “Goldilocks” option presented in the recent consultation and contains “mid scales” datasets which are …
I have really enjoyed listening to the BBC Radio 4 series “On the Map” a series on mapping presented by Mike Parker a self-confessed OS Map fan, and author of Map Addict a recommended read. Now Mike is very much a OS paper maps man, so in today’s programme I attempt to defend digital mapping …
Something that will either bring make warm memories or horror to people who studied Physical Geography at School is the creation of valley profiles, in particular to illustrate the erosional effect of glaciers in the recent Geological past.. OK, so that’s at least 50% of my readership which have clicked away.. the rest of you, welcome you are true geographers – be …
It’s amazing how much copy a Lib-Dem MP on the run up to the general election can generate by calling up the press and mentioning street view in the UK has pictures of the “secret” SAS base. There is actually a serious and rather worrying point behind this nonsense, there seems to be evidence of …
The past couple of months seems to have offered a cathartic opportunity for the relatively small UK Geographic Information Industry to get some long terms issues off its collective chest. In no particular order we have seen the following public responses to the Consultation for the future of Ordnance Survey. (Let me know if you know of any more.. updated – …
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