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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 – …
Seems that everytime I’m in Mountain View, Andy and the guys at CASA build a really useful tool, (so I need to do this trip more often) their PhotoOverlay tool, is a great help in exploiting my favourite feature of Google Earth 4.2 as demonstrated by one of my holiday pictures above. Now if someone …
OK so just a little tongue in cheek, but the AGI team behind the annual UK GI conference would like input in bringing in the perspective of the “Neo-geographers” in planning next years event. This is a great idea, let’s hope that enough people in the new world of users of GI find such organisations …
Read more “Calling Neogeographers.. UK Dinosaurs need your help!”
I have just returned home from a well earned family vacation in Dubai, a destination that is a cross between SimCity and Disneyland as my wife describes it. Of course I took my laptop along to keep up with email and stuff, and was thus quite impressed to see Mikel’s post about getting OSM onto …
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