UK Mash-up event

I blogged a few months ago in response to Charles Arthur on the perceived lack of UK mapping mashups. While I did not agree at the time with his position that lack of data was the major problem, I guess we must accept that he is right to note the lower profile of creating mash-ups …

Combining brands.. BA and GE

BA and Google combine their offerings in a really interesting way with BA’s latest world offers campaign. I like that the viewer really gets a sense of “where” destinations actually are, using GE to “fly” between them, something often lost in our geography challenged generation. Got me thinking however, whose brand is using the others? …

Tele Atlas get it..

Tele Atlas clearly get one of the key elements of “web 2.0”, engage with your customer and make them part of your solution. Their beta Map Insight website allows users to identify and correct errors in Tele Atlas data. This is a win-win solution, the data provider identifies and corrects errors that actually matter to …

Maps Kidnapped ?

As both James and Jo blogged, the complete series of USGS Quad series DRG maps were taken hostage this week and then released following the payment of $1600 to the Free the Maps website. Now we are thought the data was free right? – well yes but.. Some states made the data available free to …

A picture is worth a thousand words ?

Not when it comes to Geographic Information I would argue… Adena very well I think identified the massive interest in imagery demonstrated by the vendors at this years ESRI UC exhibition in her latest directions magazine editorial. Imagery is great as context to other types of spatial information, but on its own I believe it’s …

Calling UK Geobloggers

Dominic has a very interesting post over at geometrybag, noting the lack of UK centric content in the dozen or so UK based blogs that deal with Geography and GIS. Dominic is on to something here, there are many topics that are of interest to a UK specific readership beyond OS bashing of course 🙂 …

Tim Berners Lee to Keynote at Terra future 2006

Following on from the success of last years Terra Future event, this year TBL will be the keynote speaker at Terra future 2006 the Ordnance Survey meeting focused on Research and innovation in the use of Geographic Information. We are very pleased to have Tim presenting as OS has had an active research group looking …