The first day.. and things to my mind are a little different from previous years.. Jack’s vision in terms of the Geoweb seems little changed from last year – the focus this year is on “managing the earth’ using GIS. Although no mention was made of the development of google maps, ESRI are clearly responding …
William Heath and the The Ideal Government Project blog are running a competition over the summer for people to build a mapping mashup application which displays any government dataset on free online mapping. OS is providing the prizes in the form of OS Select maps. Some great examples already including this example which maps recent …
Mobile GMaps is a J2ME application which allows you to use Google Maps on your mobile phone! – VERY COOL !! As a java application is works on most modern phones which have http access enabled, works well on my SE V800 using UMTS it is also pretty fast !! You have to handle it …
I traveling out to San Diego on Saturday to attend the ESRI UC this year flying via phoenix – remember the great days when BA had a direct 777 service !! If you visiting just one GIS show in a year this would be it, although clearly focused on everything Arc it is the place …
Ok enough of google earth, how about Google Moon, a mini site put up by google to celebrate the Apollo 11 mission of July 1969. Make sure you zoom in to the maximum level, to see the lunar geology.. Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
I and the OS are great supporters of GML, the Geographic Markup Language, an open standard for XML encoding of geodata. OS MasterMap was the first widely available product to make use of GML and over the past couple of years the industry has developed solutions to fully exploit it. We knew when we started …
David Maguire ESRI’s director of products has begun a blog. Should make interesting reading… it you want to see the direction the GIS industry is heading, this will be a place to look.
I was part of a panel today at the The Mobility Summit an event organised by the European Technology Forum and Cnet Networks. The panel discussed the emergence of more precisely the lack of emergence of Location Based Services as a section of the mobile data industry. The point I argued, as I have before, …
Spent the weekend flicking through a very cool new book on GI and GIS technologies, “Mapping Hacks” a product of the people behind the mapping hacks website. This is great stuff, it bites off all the basic principles of GeoData in small chunks, from the perspective of someone actually trying to build practical solutions. This …
Daniel H. Stienberg pens a review of the where 2.0 conference at O’Reilly Network: The How and Who of Where. A whole new sector of the GI market is emerging based on open IT standards, and collaborative development. The old guard of the established mapping agencies needs to take note, although their core business will …
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