I flew into Dubai this morning to attend the second Map Middle East Conference, and was knocked over by the presentation of Michael Jones CTO of the Google Earth/Map/Local team. Jones presented the vision for Google’s “geography” applications, which was breathtaking in its scope. Building on the Google mission to organise the worlds data, Jones …
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As reported in this weeks Guardian OS Story, Tim Berners-Lee has commented on the OS and the role of Geographic Information in the semantic web. Contrary to earlier reports, Sir Tim seems NOT to be asking for free access to geospatial data… instead, intelligent, feature based geospatial data, rather than simple mapping should be made …
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I mentioned a while ago that I was disappointed that few people were really exploiting the information in OS MasterMap to produce different cartographic representations, instead sticking to the OS “house style”. Well last week the British Cartographic Society awarded its MasterMap “Better Mapping” award to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, for their …
I spent a very enjoyable Saturday this weekend, helping to man the Ordnance Survey stand at the Outdoors Show, a public exhibition for everybody who enjoys the outdoors. Amongst all the stands showing canoes, sleeping bags, climbing ropes, and maps !! what really got my interest was the every growing number of vendors of “high …
I got thinking last week about the actual impact of GPS navigation systems on peoples driving habits after reports of satnavs sending people through villages as short cuts. I’m not sure this is actually the case, why I’m uncertain was an experience on a Friday evening a few weeks previously… I travel north up the …
No this is not about folding maps, rather a link to Geoff Zeiss comments on the usefulness of the new generation of mobile devices. The mainstream IT press seems to have really stuck the knife into these devices, comparing them unfavourably to laptops and even tablet pc’s. But as Geoff points out such devices really …
As Martin points out in his return to blogging (welcome back !!) one of the most interesting presentations at this OGC TC meeting was the one given by Raj Singh on GeoRSS. GeoRSS is a rapidly developing standard to encode locations into RSS feeds, so that for example, your blog aggregator software could subscribe to …
Once again the Guardian Newspaper in the UK (which I read incidentally) has got caught up in the free geospatial data debate. I quote..”Our taxes fund the collection of public data – yet we pay again to access it. Make the data freely available to stimulate innovation, argue Charles Arthur and Michael Cross ” The …
As James at Spatially Adjusted points out MapQuest joins GMY with it’s mapping API. Beyond the “Me too” aspects what is interesting here is that MapQuests’ business model is already very well established as an application service provider. So here the free API is almost a demo for its commerical services, as the T&C’s state.. …
It is not often you get driving instructions which use Rockets as landmarks, but picking up my hire car I was told to turn of the highway when I went passed the Saturn V ! Huntsville is very much a town with technology at it’s heart, home to the Marshall Space Centre, and numerous defence …
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