There has been much in the blogosphere, tech and even mainstream press written about the relative merits of Flash and it’s use compared to the up and coming shinny new standard of HTML 5. While nobody other than possibly Adobe denies that HTML will be core to much of the future web, today there are …
Last week Google introduced Map Maker a set of online map making tools to very positive… but not universal acclaim. I can understand where SteveC is coming from, but I think it’s important to clarify a few points. Map Maker is clearly not an open source project, and as such is not in competition with …
I’m afraid I won’t be able to attend this years State of the Map Conference, but the schedule looks fantastic and I’m sure Limerick as a location will provide great craic. If you have not already registered, this is a conference I would really recommend attending, without question crowd sourced geodata will be an important …
The principle success criteria for a good developer conference, great food ! Ok there is more… A commitment to open up interfaces to allow the developer community to really exploit the functionality that you develop, and an opportunity to share experiences and communicate with your peers are also really important. Written and submitted from the …
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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Airport Security Another place not recommended to run Windows USGS Tele Atlas inside An interesting announcement from the ESRI federal user conference, USGS maps in the future will use TA map data, another step towards the mapping operations of the USGS moving to the commercial sector ? GeoWeb 2008 Student Contest Always one of the …
One of the topics which most often comes up in conversation when talking about creating new maps, is how historic information is recorded and displayed. Spatio-Temporal data modelling is a big and scary topic which has occupied the GI Research community for a number of years, and will do for a many more. Today a …
So roll on 2008, it’s a great time to be involved with geospatial technology in all it forms, and for its great to be part of an industry that is touching so many more peoples lives… Part of the excitment I feel is due to the fact that the industry is changing to finally better …
Seems that everytime I’m in Mountain View, Andy and the guys at CASA build a really useful tool, (so I need to do this trip more often) their PhotoOverlay tool, is a great help in exploiting my favourite feature of Google Earth 4.2 as demonstrated by one of my holiday pictures above. Now if someone …
OK so just a little tongue in cheek, but the AGI team behind the annual UK GI conference would like input in bringing in the perspective of the “Neo-geographers” in planning next years event. This is a great idea, let’s hope that enough people in the new world of users of GI find such organisations …
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