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The Onion a great news magazine and website from over the pond brings us their version of the World Fact Book in the form on a new Google Maps mash-up Our Dumb World – The worlds countries summarised into simple info bubbles, you need look no further for a comprehensive world view. Written and Submitted …
Read more “Our Dumb World : Who needs the CIA World factbook now..”
Has anybody seen this data ? If so, please return it in the envelope provided, as the owner would quite like it back. Lisa, I think was a little shocked this evening when I jumped of the sofa and started swearing at the TV news. Dear readers outside of the UK, I must explain.. the …
I got myself in trouble on a number of occasions with my old boss when I drew the obvious comparisons between the Geodata industry and the Music Industry, and how Geodata providers needed to move with the times.. It is therefore interesting to see that a least one music industry boss is recognising the mistakes …
Read more “Geodata suppliers – lessons from the music industry..”
So maybe now Mr Balmer is reconsidering his comments of last week.. For me and my interest in geographic information the key detail about the Android SDK is the LBS component, and where is appears in the whole android stack. I have often argued that LBS would only really make sense as an underlining infrastructure …
One of the most formidable and well respected members of British Parliament, Gwyneth Dunwoody has attacked plans by the European Commission to fund Galileo, the European version of GPS. The Commission is stepping in to fund the initial phases of the programme as a plan to obtain funding from potential commercial operators of the system …
Read more “More trouble for Galileo as Mrs Dunwoody attacks”
Unlike my old friend Peter who had a low-key purchasing experience in Winchester, I think I got my moneys worth after joining the line for about a hour outside the main Apple Store in the UK in London’s Regents Street. Very soon after the scared hour of 6:02 pm the queue began to move. After …
So I have lost site of the end of line and its getting cold, this is not how it was in Palo Alto methinks.. still less than a hour to go and I would guess around 2000 people here..Just has a chat with a nice lady from trustedplaces.com, a happy Google maps api user.Written and …
Read more “Well toto I don’t think we are in California any more..”
View Larger Map Click on the markers for near real time updates ! Written and submitted from the area around the Regents Street Apple Store using my Three 3G wireless modem.
Mr Jobs… No not that Steve… This one.. Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer believes Android is ‘just a press release’, well just wait till the release of the SDK next week Steve, its way more than a press release – I know because I have seen it ! Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 …
For the first time in my many trips to the valley, I felt the earth move this evening as the San Francisco Bay area experienced a moderate earthquake. Of course as soon as I could I looked online at the USGS site, and within minutes the KML of the epicentre was there to view – …
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