The Geospatial Special Interest Group is hosting a talk on the Guardian Free our Data campaign next month, by Michael Cross. Should be an interesting meeting, the campaign has done a great job in highlighting the issue of accessibility to geospatial information in the UK in particular, but political progress has been slow, and it …
For the last 15 years the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI) have been working hard to co-ordinate national and local governments, NGO’s, international institutions and other organisations to develop local, national, regional and then hopefully one day a global GIS database along with the polices to access it. Last week I attended and made …
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A little from left field as most people have been thinking about the upcoming Location Strategy publication, The Communities and Local Government Select Committee published their report on the Ordnance Survey on Saturday. Despite the dry nature of a select committee report, it is worth reading because there are some key findings nobody other than …
An interesting news story from silicon.com, noting that government staff are to be banned from removing laptops containing personal information from their offices. Is it just me, but should we not be asking why they have such data on their laptops in the first place ? Surely all such information should be held only in …
Last weeks announcement on the Zillow blog that is was releasing its neighbourhood boundary data to the community in Shapefile format is the story of the year so far… (ok so we are only a few weeks in… but this is important) Zillow is the US Real Estate web site that uses much web 2.0 …
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In the past I have been very critical of the BBC approach to making their programmes available online, which until December required you to use Microsoft DRM, and hence was PC only. However in December the beeb released the streaming version of iPlayer using the latest Adobe technology to allow users to watch selected programmes …
The Power of Information Report continues to have its impact around Whitehall, following the hell frezzing release of OS Openspace (alpha) just before the deadline of December last year, the Office of Public Sector Informtion (OPSI) has announced plans to run a barcamp a week on Saturday (12th January). The BarCampPOIR8 will have as it’s …
As happens in this world of constant communications, I heard of the new OpenAerialMap site via an IM chat with Jeff Johnson of PictEarth on Sunday lunchtime ! The idea behind OAM is for it to become an online repository for community generated aerial photography, sourced from Kites, Low cost UAV’s , etc. I’m sure …
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Has anybody seen this data ? If so, please return it in the envelope provided, as the owner would quite like it back. Lisa, I think was a little shocked this evening when I jumped of the sofa and started swearing at the TV news. Dear readers outside of the UK, I must explain.. the …
I got myself in trouble on a number of occasions with my old boss when I drew the obvious comparisons between the Geodata industry and the Music Industry, and how Geodata providers needed to move with the times.. It is therefore interesting to see that a least one music industry boss is recognising the mistakes …
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