A public note of congratulations to the organisers of the weekendsWherecamp EU , well done it was a massive success! It is often said that the most useful part of any conference are the conversations that happen in the hallways or over lunch, and the bar-camp format used this weekend makes the most of this by doing …
Today some 230,000 miles of Street View coverage has gone live in Google Maps, which represents arguably the most detailed map of the UK every produced. I say this because of the amount of information contained in each panoramic photograph is simply massive. Yes it may not look like a conventional cartographic map, but it …
It is always a nice opportunity to speak to people who are not GI Industry experts or mapping mavens but who are “normal” people whose lives are however impacted by Geospatial Technology. On Monday I has the massive pleasure of meeting some of the business owners located on Shambles which was a winner in one …
I spent the beginning of a very busy week last week talking about the benefits of making public sector data more accessible. I was speaking at the launch of public transit data in Brussels, where the local public transport agency STIB made their schedule information available for use within Google Maps in Belgium. As in …
No my blog has not been hacked, but to help the other Dad’s out there who will come across this problem here are the instructions to set the time on a Brio Watch. Not heard of them, you don’t have a tweenager then. My Daughter returned from her hols with her new watch..”Dad can you …
This is a bit of fun, we have a great team of developers in Sydney who work of the Maps API amongst other things and yesterday launched for the worlds enjoyment a bunch of Labs features to Google Maps which basically allow you to do cool stuff. One tool allows you to flip you map, …
Sometimes you can’t beat a simple story.. On this side of the pond it is had to understand just how big a deal the Superbowl is in the US, it remains one of the few remaining occasions when most of the country sits down and watches the same rectangle of moving pixels at the same …
So Apple are banning location based advertising apps, as a result of their recent purchase of Quattro Wireless. Well that would seem to follow the usual Apple control freakery, well I’m not so sure.. I think Apple is actually doing the right thing, setting best practice for developing apps that use location. What they actually …
So its the iPad, a large iPod Touch and the blogosphere has spoken, it’s a fail. Well that’s not quite the end of the story as I see it, the key point to understand in the importance of Apple’s new device is to recognise that computers and the web are no longer the preserve of the …
So be honest how many of us every expected todays’s announcement would ever come? a day when the very conservative civil service of the United Kingdom made available very comprehensive government data sets available for free. OK there are a few notable exceptions (OS , Royal Mail and TfL spring to mind) but as a starting point to have …
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