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Last week Google introduced Map Maker a set of online map making tools to very positive… but not universal acclaim. I can understand where SteveC is coming from, but I think it’s important to clarify a few points. Map Maker is clearly not an open source project, and as such is not in competition with …
Over the past few months Crime Mapping has floated up the political agenda, reaching the mainstream with Boris Johnson’s recent call for crime mapping, echoed by the Guardian’s Free our Data campaign, and this morning followed up by the reporting of Louise Casey’s Cabinet Office report. You would think from the media, that this is …
I’m afraid I won’t be able to attend this years State of the Map Conference, but the schedule looks fantastic and I’m sure Limerick as a location will provide great craic. If you have not already registered, this is a conference I would really recommend attending, without question crowd sourced geodata will be an important …
There is a great story behind this map, which illustrates why the Geospatial Industry is just so exciting at the moment, and hints at the potential of the geoweb as a global phenomenon. Written and submitted from the Google Office, London.
Actually, I’m not that excited about the GPS, and the speed of UMTS is great but for me the most important part of the new package is the UMTS network itself and its coverage. In the UK O2 never really invested in a EDGE network as a result, most iPhone users in the UK were …
Digital Urban and the guys at CASA announce the latest iteration of their brilliant tool to fill the gap between traditional GIS data and Google Maps – MapTube. There can’t be a better way at the moment to publish results more quickly and easily, this is a key tool in publishing the results of GI …
This took about the time I thought it would, I was joking at Google I/O last week with Brady Forrest how long it would take someone to create a simple Flight Sim using the Google Earth Plugin ! As reported by the wonderful www.barnabu.co.uk Written and submitted from the Ottawa Airport, using its Boingo 802.11 …
The principle success criteria for a good developer conference, great food ! Ok there is more… A commitment to open up interfaces to allow the developer community to really exploit the functionality that you develop, and an opportunity to share experiences and communicate with your peers are also really important. Written and submitted from the …
As someone points out in the comments of this Free Our Data post, the definition of the Ordnance Survey’s public task was clearly written by the OS, I would suggest maybe even Vanessa Lawrence herself. But if you were the CEO of a large commercial organisation would you not want to write your own mission …
So the results are in for the Android Developer Challenge and is amazing to see how many of the nearly fifty winning entiries can be described as some form of LBS application. As we have always thought location is a key component to the mobile applications of the future. The example here eco2go, is an …
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