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So that’s the end of the Sir Humphrey chapter of my career, yesterday I left the OS, packing my belongings into a couple of plastic crates. It’s certainly been interesting! To my many friends at the OS farewell, you all have my utmost respect, working with great commitment often within constraints beyond your control. The …
Time Magazine, the popular choice of travellers at airport bookstores every year publishes it’s Person of the Year special. In the past Time has recognised such figures as Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan, The Apollo 8 astronauts, John F. Kennedy, and last year Bono, Bill and Melinda Gates. This year in an inspired piece of journalism, …
Just returned from the latest Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Technical Committee meeting hosted by BAE systems in San Diego, where for me a important milestone was reached with the formation of a Mass Market working group, with a remit to work on “joining the dots” between the established GI standards community and the rapidly developing …
According to almost everybody on the internet, at 10am PST on the 9th January next year, at the Moscone Center Steve Jobs will introduce the iPhone, perhaps one of the most anticipated products ever from Apple. There is much speculation as to what the phone will look like and its functionality, and this tends to …
The following is an agreed statement that was posted earlier today on the Ordnance Survey Intranet, “Ed Parsons is leaving his post as Chief Technology Officer of Ordnance Survey to pursue new challenges in the increasingly dynamic Geographic Information (GI) Industry. Since his arrival in June 2001, Ed has developed Ordnance Survey’s IT strategy and …
The image below tells us quite a lot about own the GI industry is developing. Click on the image for a full resolution screen-shot of openstreetmap (OSM) data and OS ITN data in Cadcorp‘s SIS desktop GIS, which can now import OSM XML. What do we have here… 1. Cadcorp a progressive but mainstream GIS …
I visited the IGN Research Department today in Paris, and it was interesting to see the different approaches to solving similar research questions. For a similar sized organisation, IGN has a much larger Research Dept of 100 people, compared to the 30 at the OS. Much of this research is funded by the French Government …
If you are in London between now and March next year I would recommend a visit to British Library exhibition “London: A life in Maps“. This is a great treat for anyone who loves maps like the famous Newcourt map of 1658 (above) illustrating London pre the Great Fire. Other maps of great interest include …
A number of press releases including those from the Commission, the Finnish Presidency Website and the European Parliament all provide limited detail as to the final text of the INSPIRE directive, which was agreed late yesterday as a result of a formal conciliation process. Although the actual agreed text of the directive does not appear …
O’Reilly have announced the dates of the 2007 Where 2.0 again in San Jose, but now May 29-30 , no longer clashing with the ESRI UC – The online Call for Participation in itself is interesting reading as a good indicator of the range of topics the “undergound” GI Industry now covers. Can’t help but …
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