The OS has just launched a commercial service through partners to provide a highly accurate real-time positioning service based on GPS called OSNet. This launch overshadowed the redevelopment of the Free (Yes Free !!) resources that are provided to users of GPS in Great Britain which includes a software library for software developers to translate …
Warning outrageous plug follows ; A Last minute reminder, the AGI Technical SIG ‘Open-Source in GIS’ Event is next week in Cambridge, it’s not too late to book a place with the AGI to attend. Find out why there is such as buzz in the industry for PostGIS, MapServer, MapGuide Open Source and the Open …
The effort to create a copyright free streetmap continues next month with a dedicated weekend of mapping the streets of Manchester. Sounds like it’s going to be a great weekend .. It is going to take a while, but I firmly believe one day they will be national open source datasets alongside the existing closed …
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So this weeks Free our Data article attacking the OS (Do you think it’s personal ?) looks into the issue of inaccurate or perhaps out of date data in Navigation Systems and online mapping tools. These I believe are the facts as presented in Charles Arthurs latest article. – A street on which a house …
As a regular listener to Steve Gillmors’ Gillmor Gang podcast, I have become familiar with the concept of Attention, which is now entering the technology mainstream with a good writeup in MIT’s Technology Review Attention as a concept is a realisation that with the massive increase in content on the internet, both professional and “consumer” generated, …
Following a comment by Charles Arthur (yes he of the Free Our Data Campaign) that there were no UK based mapping mashups, I did a bit of a search and came up with this page which lists at least 22 mashups in the UK, and yes they all contain Ordnance Survey data licensed through partners. …
As a long time user of their OS MasterMap GML viewer, I was really pleased to see Snowflake release their new GML Viewer which Snowflake claims can display any GML2/3 application schema. The snowflake guys really understand GML, as an XML dialect, a good application should be able to parse the contents of a “new” …
My wife Lisa, loves the Channel 4 TV programme Location, Location, Location in which Phil and Kirstie our friendly property experts, try to find a new house for a member of the general public who think they know what they want, but almost always don’t have enough money. I mention this, as today I attended …
After a number of years planning, we finally got round to signing the contract to build a new micro satellite dedicated to the needs of the Ordnance Survey. MapSat will be built over the next 18 months by Guildford Space Projects, and launched in 2009 using a COSMOS launch vehicle. MapSat will feature a 2m …
Google are now trialing more sophisticated sponsored locations, including company logo and url. As noted before, we should not be surprised by this, the basic Google business model is built on advertising, expected to be worth $7.5b next year, and there is no such thing as a free map !!
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