Ethernet speeds to the home at last !!
NTL today announced that it will roll out 10Mbps broadband cable connections to its current customers at no extra cost. Great news – now if only their merger with telewest happens soon…
OS maps “Danny Land”
A great example of National Mapping knowledge transfer as surveyors from the London field office assist in the mapping of a new Nation as part of the BBC TV series “How to Start Your Own Country”
Google Maps API meets the podfather
Inventor of podcasting Adam Curry has discovered the google maps api, in his latest Daily Source Code podcast he talks extensively on the subject and is clearly very excitied about the possibilites of using it along with GPS to produce “indie” mapping data and services. There seems to be a mainstream hype developing around google …
Visiting the Mothership – despite Microsoft !!
As I was in “the valley” today, on my way home from visiting Fujitsu in Sunnyvale I thought I would drop into the Apple campus in nearby Cupertino. I am please to confirm it still exisits despite Microsoft not having it on the imagery layer in MSN virtual earth. I have the t-shirt to prove …
ESRI UC farewell..
I have left San Diego, and flown up to San Jose to meet up with the people at Fujitsu Siemens the people who build the tablet PC’s the OS field staff use. As always, enjoyed the ESRI conference, the whole web services message seems to be coming together now and it was good to see …
ESRI UC day 2… The hidden wow factor
Had a couple of meetings today, then met up with some old Autodesk friends and wnet along to a few presentations yesterday. I was taken aback by the amount of new stuff especially in ArcSDE and database support in 9.2. As i said yesterday I was surprised how little emphasis was given in the plenary …
ESRI User Conference – Day 1
The first day.. and things to my mind are a little different from previous years.. Jack’s vision in terms of the Geoweb seems little changed from last year – the focus this year is on “managing the earth’ using GIS. Although no mention was made of the development of google maps, ESRI are clearly responding …
Mashup competition
William Heath and the The Ideal Government Project blog are running a competition over the summer for people to build a mapping mashup application which displays any government dataset on free online mapping. OS is providing the prizes in the form of OS Select maps. Some great examples already including this example which maps recent …
Google Maps on your mobile phone!
Mobile GMaps is a J2ME application which allows you to use Google Maps on your mobile phone! – VERY COOL !! As a java application is works on most modern phones which have http access enabled, works well on my SE V800 using UMTS it is also pretty fast !! You have to handle it …
The 25th ESRI User Conference preview
I traveling out to San Diego on Saturday to attend the ESRI UC this year flying via phoenix – remember the great days when BA had a direct 777 service !! If you visiting just one GIS show in a year this would be it, although clearly focused on everything Arc it is the place …