I came across a great video last night at the tao of mac blog, what if the Microsoft package design team was responsible for creating the iPod box.. The video (beware wmv format) is funny but contains a really powerful message, how often do we in the geospatial industry over complicate the design of our …
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As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, The AGI Technical SIG is organising a meeting in Cambridge on the 27th April, there is now a detailed agenda. The use of Open-Source software has become increasingly prevalent in many areas of information technology. For example, the majority of web sites run on open-source web server software …
Earlier this year I was a guest on a BBC radio programme looking into Geospatial technology, one of the topics of debate was the growing industry of tracking. Now the BBC has followed this up on their World Service Programme Click this week. Although the report perhaps overplays the accuracy of mobile phone based tracking …
I have always had a great deal of time for Sanjay Kumar and his team behind the excellent Asian GIS magazine, GIS Development, and was very happy to contribute an article for their embedded GIS issue. I don’t think GIS Development and the geospatial activities taking place in Asia, and in India and the Middle …
The most talked about conference of last year, was Where 2.0 and organisers O’Reilly have now opened the 2006 Conference for registration, this year a few miles south in San Jose. Well worth a visit for the non traditional GI industry view of the world.
Over the next day or so you will see press releases announcing that Ordnance Survey has signed up to be the sole agent for Pictometry in Great Britain. Pictometry is the technology that fuses oblique aerial photography, with orthomodels and geospatial feature data to produce a roamable intelligent images from which you can interrogate spatial …
Last week we hosted at the Ordnance Survey a group from Lantmäteriet the Swedish Mapping Agency who were interested in our programme to develop a new geospatial data management system. I guess we should not be too surprised, but not only are the problems we are trying to solve very similar but the approach to …
Following on from last weeks weekends meeting to create the Open Source Geospatial Foundation open source GIS is flavour of the month. There is still quite a lot of confusion in the industry as to what “open source’ GIS means – does open source mean free ? for example. To help discuss and clarify some …
Simon Doyle, ex-Ordnance Survey man and this years chair of the AGI, clearly has hidden talents as demonstrated in his latest column in GEO:connexion magazine. Although the humour may not translate very well to international readers, there is an important point here about the inability of the GIS industry to deliver solutions that actually make …
On of the parts of my job which gives me the most pleasure is working with the OS Research and Innovation Department. Outside of the academic research community in the UK, the efforts of these guys has gone on pretty much unnoticed. The covers began to be lifted with last years TerraFuture event, and now …
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