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A nice Free Wifi Access map from the Londonist, locating free public wifi sites, moderated at the moment pehaps it would be more useful if it allowed users to maintain the database. Still a long way from the original consume the net database. Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
I have just returned from the beautiful town of Girona in Spain, where I was speaking at the AGILE 2008 Conference, a meeting of the key Geographic Information research laboratories in Europe, which was expertly organised by SIGTE the GIS Lab at the University of Girona. As is increasingly the case at conferences I attend, …
Last Week saw TomTom announce a large drop in quarterly earnings , with sales of their iconic PND becoming more difficult, needing price reductions to keep sales moving. Many are suggesting this is the natural evolution of the market, with saturation at a particular price point on one hand, while on the other, mobile phones …
From the Wired blog a demo of Enkin; still a work in progress, but potentially this is the LBS interface of the future.. Enkin from Enkin on Vimeo. Written and Submitted from the Google Office, London.
On of the most asked for features when talking to “professional” users of Google Earth, is the most basic piece of metadata, image acquisition date. Well, one of the least remarked features in the 4.3 version of Google Earth which was released last week is the ability to at least discover the year the image …
Excellent news from the Free our Data campaign blog, David Rhind well respected in the UK GI industry, and ex-DG of the Ordnance Survey is to be the new Chair of the Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information. His insider knowledge will be very valuable in moving the debate of making public sector information more …
It has taken me a while to get round to commenting on the Trading Funds Report as I have been travelling, and it’s 150 pages long !! It is a very important document in many ways, for the first time there is a well researched analysis from economists on the impact of different funding models …
Read more “Does this equation mean the end of the commercial OS ?”
The Geospatial Special Interest Group is hosting a talk on the Guardian Free our Data campaign next month, by Michael Cross. Should be an interesting meeting, the campaign has done a great job in highlighting the issue of accessibility to geospatial information in the UK in particular, but political progress has been slow, and it …
Much like the Google Android platform, yesterdays annoucement from Apple includes news of a Location API as part of the iPhone OS which will allow third parties to develop location based applications, and most importantly enable any iphone application to make use of location. Seen alongside Android there is now a critical mass of developers …
Read more “iPhone 2.0 api includes core location component.”
For the last 15 years the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI) have been working hard to co-ordinate national and local governments, NGO’s, international institutions and other organisations to develop local, national, regional and then hopefully one day a global GIS database along with the polices to access it. Last week I attended and made …
Read more “GSDI 10 – Despite best intentions, slow progress but a new outlook ?”
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