Today I attended a meeting of around 30 UK based members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), called by David Schell and Mark Reichardt who are in the UK to canvas the opinions of OGC members. This example of the OGC wanting to understand the point of view of members based this side of the …
The BBC reported today on the launch of a project of the Spatial-Literacy group, a collection of universities working together to improve the understanding of spatial data in the “general public”. This is a fantastic project, although i must admit to being on its Advisory Committee, I think this is just the type of outreach …
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Wired adds to the debate over the threat to civil liberties from web mapping sites like google and microsoft local. As seems to have been the case with much of the recent reporting, the issue is not so much with mapping, but the use of detailed imagery. One of the concerns expressed is the apparent …
Last years Where 2.0 conference was one of the most important conferences of 2005, and O’Reilly have just announced the dates for the 2006 conference to be held in San Jose, CA. in June. If it has anything like the content of last year it will be a must attend conference, in particular for the …
David Galbraith has spotted the arrival of blue pin markers on google local maps representing sponsored hotel locations, as well as the usual red ones. This was always going to happen, all that mapping data from Teleatlas, Digitalglobe, Navteq etc costs money…I predicted this back in June of last year, and to their credit Google …
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Hidden behind the news of the first Intel powered iMacs and Macbooks (yuk – don’t like that name!!) Google released the official MacOS version of Google Earth. Having played with the beta for the last month or so, it works very much the same as the windows version, and will work on relatively low spec …
Thanks to John, one of the OS semantic web experts for pointing out that Tim Berners-Lee has started a blog. Some of my colleagues at the OS have in the past discussed the importance of GI with Tim, and he recognises geographic information as an important component to the semantic systems of the future. Now …
Before Christmas I took part in the recording of the BBC Radio 4 shoptalk radio show which was broadcast yesterday, the Real Audio archive is here. Drop me a comment if you would like an mp3 version… I was very impressed by the quality of research carried out before hand, the excellent questions asked of …
By using spacebourne atomic clocks, Europes chefs will be able to produce the perfect boiled egg. Ok so I am joking.. but based on the reporting so far of todays successful launch of the Giove-A satelitte – I would not be surpised to find it somewhere. Make no mistake Galileo when operational will be a …
I knew there was a reason why I worked for a government organisation.. from tomorrow I’m on holiday for two weeks – time to catch up on some reading, DVD’s and to try out building a ruby on rails application !! Preparing for the holidays got me in a reflective mood looking back over the …
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