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Hot topic of the moment if you have been tracking application development on the iPhone and Android platforms is Augmented Reality (AR), the ability to display annotated views of the world using a smartphones video camera and GPS. The excellent team behind the Mashup* events are holding an event later this month and I would recommend it …
So once again quiet Stratford-upon-Avon can return to tending to the needs of Shakespeare chasing tourists having survived an influx of almost the whole UK GIS industry attending last weeks AGI GeoCommunity Event. Under the direction of Steven Feldman this conference has continued to evolve always attempting to find ways to both sustain its core …
One of my favourite books of the year so far has been the marvellous Geek Atlas by John Graham-Cumming. The book which details the locations of 128 places of scientific and technological importance is perfect for someone like me who travels a fair bit and on those rare occasions when I have some spare time …
A great post by Matthew Somerville on the mysociety.org blog, discusses the impact of Parliamentary constituencies changing and some of the political capital that is generated as a result. Transparency in this part of the democratic process will absolutely vital in the upcoming general election, and yes you guessed it although the boundaries are defined …
While UK Local Authorities still struggle to provide public access to their geospatial data because of the bizarre OS rules on derived data, the residents of San Francisco have much rich data at their disposal. Following on from the federal data.gov portal launched earier this year, DataSF – DataSF is a local version providing access to …
Read more “DataSF : A example for UK Local Authorities to follow ?”
I’m speaking next week at the Location and Timing Forum who are holding a special meeting on the informed traveller, in other words providing contextual services to travellers. Next week the meeting is at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, so I won’t really be needing much in the way of contextual services to get me there …
Next week I will be joining a panel on the “value” of Location at Being-Digital ’09 at Centre Point in London. The topic of course is an interesting one, but for me the event format is perhaps more notable. Being-Digital is a “conference without PowerPoint’s”, instead there are round-tables of industry experts discussing hot topics …
While the alpha geeks of the geospatial world were meeting at Where2.0 in San Jose, something really significant happened in Washington. From the FAQ of the Obama administrations new website data.gov launched today.. “What are some resources for viewing geospatial datasets? The geospatial datasets available on Data.gov are provided in up to three open file …
From Jeff Thurston at the Vector One blog, news that the Dutch operation of Landmark Information Group have won a case at the Dutch High Courts asserting that they should be able to access environment information from the City of Amsterdam without high license costs or limitations to its reuse. This is an interesting development because it is an area where there is little case …
Read more “A rare victory for public sector data reuse in Europe”
I gave a presentation at the Digital Cities Seminar yesterday and was fascinated by some of the maps Sir Terry Farrell showed as part of his presentation which will be featured in his new book Shaping London. It is always refreshing to look at how people other than cartographers choose to represent geospatial information, the image below taken from Terry’s presentation show the …
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