Wired adds to the debate over the threat to civil liberties from web mapping sites like google and microsoft local. As seems to have been the case with much of the recent reporting, the issue is not so much with mapping, but the use of detailed imagery. One of the concerns expressed is the apparent …
Took the opportunity this weekend to upgrade the blog software I use to WordPress 2.0, mainly to use the comment and trackback spam tools. At the same time I updated the header image to use my icon I acquired from a great outfit called dv-graphics, well worth taking a look at! Written and submitted from …
Last years Where 2.0 conference was one of the most important conferences of 2005, and O’Reilly have just announced the dates for the 2006 conference to be held in San Jose, CA. in June. If it has anything like the content of last year it will be a must attend conference, in particular for the …
David Galbraith has spotted the arrival of blue pin markers on google local maps representing sponsored hotel locations, as well as the usual red ones. This was always going to happen, all that mapping data from Teleatlas, Digitalglobe, Navteq etc costs money…I predicted this back in June of last year, and to their credit Google …
Read more “And so it starts – Google Local (maps) get’s blue pins”
Hidden behind the news of the first Intel powered iMacs and Macbooks (yuk – don’t like that name!!) Google released the official MacOS version of Google Earth. Having played with the beta for the last month or so, it works very much the same as the windows version, and will work on relatively low spec …
Thanks to John, one of the OS semantic web experts for pointing out that Tim Berners-Lee has started a blog. Some of my colleagues at the OS have in the past discussed the importance of GI with Tim, and he recognises geographic information as an important component to the semantic systems of the future. Now …
Before Christmas I took part in the recording of the BBC Radio 4 shoptalk radio show which was broadcast yesterday, the Real Audio archive is here. Drop me a comment if you would like an mp3 version… I was very impressed by the quality of research carried out before hand, the excellent questions asked of …
Jonathan Ive the head of industrial design at Apple and the Map behind the fantastic design of the iPod and iMacs has become aCBE in the New Year Honours list. As a republican I don’t usually have much time for this stuff.. but in this case I’ll make the exception !!
By using spacebourne atomic clocks, Europes chefs will be able to produce the perfect boiled egg. Ok so I am joking.. but based on the reporting so far of todays successful launch of the Giove-A satelitte – I would not be surpised to find it somewhere. Make no mistake Galileo when operational will be a …
No postings for a couple of days, Merry Christmas everybody !!
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