As this announcement suggests at some point in 1998 we may finally see the last Landline tile leave Southampton on a CD marking the end of the first generation of digital mapping in Great Britain. At that point Landline as a nationally complete product will be 13 years old and based on a production process …
I have just download the latest update of my favourite podcast client ipodderX, which amongst other new features offers the ability to embed any digital media within a podcast. The ability to add any enclosure to a podcast has been there from the beginning of podcasting many months ago !!! A podcast is just a …
Well with no great surprise the BBC has given into the 4,000 critical viewers (out of 10 million or so) and a few politicians looking for publicity and changed it’s weather maps. The animated fly around the British Isles has been retained thankfully as this is the most effictive part, but have been ‘slowed” as …
After a massive amount of work behind the scenes involving many Ordnance Survey, ODPM, Local Authority and Royal Mail staff a solution to the creation of maintaining a national address database has been announced. For those not aware of the scale of the problem, many places in Britain that don’t get mail delivered to them …
Hats off to the Snowflake gang, who as part of their moving card have let us know their new TOID !! One day we will all know this information – well OK maybe not 🙂 but its good to see the idea of using feature identifiers communicated in a fun way. Written and submitted from …
Fellow geeks stop reading this is not for you !!! Vodafone last week introduced a range of mobile phones designed for the technology challenged user, who wants their phone to be – well just a phone, no camera, no mp3, no internet etc. I am a big fan of good simple design, and again we …
I lead a session at the Ordnance Survey Partner conference last week discussing our future geoweb services plans, and not surprising the main topic of discussion was business models. Nobody in the industry today really knows what will happen in the market, I in the past have often drawn parallels with the download music market …
Its interesting to observe the amount of concern, it appears, has been generated by the BBC TV decision to change how they display their weather maps. Comments have focused on the use of brown rather than green to represent “Land” on the graphics, the use of animation rather than symbols to represent rain or snow …
Nokia this week released a mobile phone application that perhaps paves the way for other ‘Sentient Computing” applications. Sentient Computing uses location as the underlying framework to deliver user centric applications – the key here is that location information is implicit not explicit as in traditional LBS applications (there are no maps !!!). Sentient Computing …
Although we GI people are very keen on GML our own XML, we all realise that XML is making much bigger impacts in the wider IT world. One great example I have come across as a result of my recent upgrade to Tiger is XMPP the XML description used by Jabber, a cross-service instant messaging …
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