Merry Christmas !
From the cool photography of Wai Fong Fung, Christmas Greetings from a Galaxy far far away… Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.. with my feet up actually.
Went for a walk, came back with a map
Early this week to test a new Android application and to walk of the Google Christmas Lunch, I went for an early afternoon walk near the office. The application I was testing was My Maps Editor and Android application to create and edit Google My Maps, and it pretty much worked first time as expected allowing …
Success and Recognition.. Who needs it.
The Guardian after a gap of a couple of years has a list of its top sites of the year, and as the article points out the two big trends have been in collaboration and LBS applications. One of the sites selected is a personal favourite of mine “where’s the path” a mashup of Google …
The “modern world” demo…
As anyone who has spent any time as a demo jockey can tell you, the best demos paint a picture for your audience of a future using your tools/products which is both exciting and believable. If your demo and your product was really good your audience would leave enthused with the possibilities now achievable, and …
Looking for a Google Earth Server
Then look no further than the latest release of GeoServer which has fantastic new KML serving capabilities on a par with the Google Earth Enterprise server. The key new capability here is to stream vector and raster data to Google Earth as the user zooms or pans making sure that only just the minimum amount of information is transferred thereby giving the great performance you …
Set the boundaries free
An excellent post by Richard Allan on the Power of Information blog, Geographic Data that Should be Free (In All Senses of the Word). As the post points out there could be a very simple solution to the current problem with OS derived data, make certain types of geospatial data including administrative boundaries and the …
Everybody reads the Terms of Service..
Just like buses on the high street in any town in the UK, you have to wait ages and then along come a bunch together, so it is with the Maps API TOS, which Google revised again today. Clearly section 11 was an area of concern to the community, it is the section that balances …
Place matters: the Location Strategy for the UK
Finally after an extended delay the Dept of Communities and Local Government has published the UK location strategy, Place matters. The blueprint for a UK Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), or an extended job application for someone in Southampton… You decide ! Written and submitted from the Google Office, London.
A change of direction for the OS ?
From todays Pre-Budget report, a document that’s main focus is the fiscal stimulation of the UK economy, this nugget of potentially very exciting news… “4.54 Re-use of public sector information from trading funds The HM Treasury/Shareholder Executive assessment of trading funds has considered the potential for innovation and growth from increasing commercial and other use of public sector information. It will shortly publish some key principles …
Notes from down-under
As the Whitehall farce that is the OS derived data debacle continues, it’s interesting to contrast the flow of public sector information in the UK with that in Australia which I have just experienced first hand at the first Asia Pacific Spatial Innovation Conference. Interestingly for a Geospatial conference there was in addition to the usual technology developments, a …