Last week we hosted at the Ordnance Survey a group from Lantmäteriet the Swedish Mapping Agency who were interested in our programme to develop a new geospatial data management system. I guess we should not be too surprised, but not only are the problems we are trying to solve very similar but the approach to …
Following on from last weeks weekends meeting to create the Open Source Geospatial Foundation open source GIS is flavour of the month. There is still quite a lot of confusion in the industry as to what “open source’ GIS means – does open source mean free ? for example. To help discuss and clarify some …
Simon Doyle, ex-Ordnance Survey man and this years chair of the AGI, clearly has hidden talents as demonstrated in his latest column in GEO:connexion magazine. Although the humour may not translate very well to international readers, there is an important point here about the inability of the GIS industry to deliver solutions that actually make …
On of the parts of my job which gives me the most pleasure is working with the OS Research and Innovation Department. Outside of the academic research community in the UK, the efforts of these guys has gone on pretty much unnoticed. The covers began to be lifted with last years TerraFuture event, and now …
Adena at the All Points Blog points out that Jack Dangermond who visited us at the OS a couple of weeks ago was impressed!! Thank you Jack, from you a real compliment !!
Jo at Mapping hacks comments on an email sent by Openstreetmap (OSM) founder Steve Coast on its future. I have blogged about OSM before and am very supportive of the idea, however Steve makes the point that others in the UK are concerned to support the initiative personally, because of their relationships with the Ordnance …
My earlier post on “paper mapping” and web services coincided with the OS Options conference which took place at the OS head office in Southampton today. In many ways the Options network represents the future of printed maps, it is a network of organisations which access an OS web application (developed using ArcIMS) which allows …
Jeff at Vector One writes about the impact that the increased use of web services may have on printing. As he points out while such services make complex business process more accessible to users – I would add both professional and the hackers; there is still a need communicate spatial information and this will result …
The latest Google Earth mystery to achieve fame has been reported by The Register , an apparent flying car spotted in Perth, Western Australia. What interests me most about this and the “black helicopter” spotting craze, is how these sightings rapidly travel around the community of Google Earth Users. Perhaps we are all guilty of …
Chris Lightfoot the smart developer behind the mySociety websites dropped me an email over the weekend, with details of his latest project Postcodeine an AJAX based application that dynamically maps GB postcodes. OK so it may not be very useful, but it’s cool and Chris is making the code available under a GPL. And before …
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