GSDI 10 – Despite best intentions, slow progress but a new outlook ?

by Ed ParsonsData Policy, GIS, SDIPosted on 4 Comments

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 …

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Quick and Dirty KML with Mano and Pamela

by Ed ParsonsGoogle Earth, Google MapsPosted on 2 Comments

Mano and Pamela present the first in a series of “hands-on” videos on various aspects of the Google Geo products, this first video is brilliant, a really down to earth discussion of how to create and manilpulate KML in both Google Earth and Google Maps. Almost everybody will learn something from watching this, from newcomers …

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Links for 21 Feb 2008

by Ed ParsonsGISPosted on One Comment

Airport Security Another place not recommended to run Windows USGS Tele Atlas inside An interesting announcement from the ESRI federal user conference, USGS maps in the future will use TA map data, another step towards the mapping operations of the USGS moving to the commercial sector ? GeoWeb 2008 Student Contest Always one of the …

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Digital Geography in a Web 2.0 World

by Ed ParsonsGoogle Earth, Google Maps, web 2.0Posted on Comments are Disabled

I went along today to an excellent showcase of the academic worlds take on Web 2.0 approaches and neogeography. Organised by the team at CASA at UCL the event attracted a large crowd for a one day event to London’s Barbican Centre. Although I was only able to attend the afternoon the presentations I attended …

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London Web 2.0 map

by Ed ParsonsGoogle Maps, web 2.0Posted on Comments are Disabled

Interesting “My Map” by techcrunch uk, locating Web 2.0 startup in London, seems like Shoreditch is still the place to be.. View Larger Map Written and Submitted from the Google Office, London.

The Mobile Future

by Ed ParsonsAndroid, LBS, MobilePosted on Comments are Disabled

We can expect to see numerous stories from Barcelona this week as the The Mobile World Congress 3GSM as was takes place, and is the focus of much of the industry interest. As we all increasingly access the network online, shows like this are becoming more important, the battleground for market share is moving from …

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OS report hits all the right buttons..

by Ed ParsonsData Policy, Ordnance SurveyPosted on Comments are Disabled

A little from left field as most people have been thinking about the upcoming Location Strategy publication, The Communities and Local Government Select Committee published their report on the Ordnance Survey on Saturday. Despite the dry nature of a select committee report, it is worth reading because there are some key findings nobody other than …

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