Spoof ? Google maps Ad
Thanks to my old pal Berik, for the link to this video , a spoof ad for Google Maps ? So good it could be real or then again is this another example of a great viral campaign..
Spatial analysis hits the mainstream..
mySociety have put the analysis of geographical information into the mainstream press, with the London evening newspaper, The Standard running a report today on the Travel Maps they have created working with the Dept. for Transport in the UK. This is great to see, and again compliments to Tom and Chris for the work they …
E911 almost there…
Wired reports on progress in the US on E911 legislation which requires mobile operators to pass the location of emergency calls to the emergency services. Despite a 2005 deadline most providers it appears are only now getting to the position where location data is available and unlike in Europe the route adopted has been through …
Beware the early adopter – don’t use a TVDrive yet…
After many years of happy service I replaced my trusty Tivo with a new Hard Disk PVR that my cable company Telewest have just introduced. The TVDrive has multiple tunners, HD TV support and a larger hark disk capacity – sounds great. But I was one of the first to take the service, and yes …
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Virtual Earth UK, now with new imagery!
Microsoft have launched a new UK versions of virtual earth with new imagery sourced from getmapping. The imagery seems to leapfrog the imagery in google earth/maps seeming to be more recent at least in the area I looked at and appears to be around the same resolution 15-20cm. Remember Microsoft have adopted a more conventional …
Berners-Lee backs net neutrality
Silicon.com reports on a presentation given by Tim Berners-Lee in Edinburgh yesterday putting his support behind the movement to maintain the concept of “Net Neutrality”. Net Neutrality describes the current status quo where all network traffic is equal in the eyes of the providers of network infrastructure, e.g your network packet containing email to granny …
What the GI Industry can learn from Web 2.0
Last week I was asked to make a presentation to the Ordnance Survey Partner Conference, and I took as my topic the innovation that is taking place under the banner of “Web 2.0” My first surprise was how few of the attendees had heard the term “web 2.0” before, I wonder if this is representative …
Building Ordnance Survey 2.0
I’ve have been at the Ordnance Survey 5 years now.. and at times I would be the first to admit that life has often been very frustrating… The organisation has come on leaps and bounds in many ways over this time, but I still feel like the proverbial “captain of a oil tanker” trying to …
The Geography of porn..
I blogged a few weeks ago about the generally unrecognised potential value of geospatial “attention data”, the information which describes what we are interested in, as manifested by the information we leave behind when we use web-sites. The BBC today reports on Googles harvesting of its attention data using its new Trends analytic tools. It …
BCS Presentation slides uploaded
As promised to those of you who attended the BCS Geospatial Interest Group meeting on Monday night, my slides are now available here