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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 …
Goggles is a flash based ‘Flight simulator” that lets you fly around Google Maps imagery. Great fun, don’t fly to low, but who knows what licensing issues this throws up 🙂 Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
Silicon.com reports the latest findings from analysts Canalys, who note that sales of GPS navigation systems (Satnavs) have again grown over 100% in the past year, with Tom Tom and Garmin the major players. Doubling market share soon moves a market, so the road atlas may soon go the same way as the eight track …
I thought it was best to sleep on my thoughts for day 1 of the conference to contemplate what I have heard… I’m still trying to get over seeing AutoCAD and Intergraph GeoMedia demonstrated on Mainstage at a ESRI UC – that’s real interoperability for you. Many people I have spoken to were a little …
Jessie and Sue of Very Spatial have some temporary competition in the shape of the Directions Magazine Podcast for the ESRI UC. Their first a review of the Senior Executive Leadership Seminar is a great start. Written and submitted from the Wyndham San Diego Hotel, using a local open wifi network.
I of course knew it was coming, but is was nevertheless a very strange experience to see my face projected 10 metres high on the six screens at the ESRI user conference, as a video made by ESRI at the OS to celebrate the organisation winning this years Presidents Award was shown. We are of …
And so once again 14,000 ESRI GIS users descend on Downtown San Diego for a week of technical sessions and events which often has the atmosphere of a revivalist gathering, such is the ‘Cult of ESRI”, and I really mean that is a positive way, as I am a willing member of the other great …
I watched a BBC4 documentary on my TVDrive last night (Yes it is sort of working now – for everything but LOST !) a programme called “Journeys into the ring of Fire” which looked at how the physical environment of Japan had effected things like urban settlement patterns and even the Japanese national character… does …
An interesting post from Tim who is a GeoWeb 2006 in Vancouver. Great new blog by the way.. Tim notes comments from Microsoft about their plans to create 3D city models in a “different” way to Google. Just speculating but maybe the different approach its something to do with the fact that Microsoft also own …
For a long time the Mac has been the poor relation of the Windows PC in terms of GPS managment software, the type of software that allows users to create and downlaod waypoints, display base mapping and user defined routes. RouteBuddy is a universal binary application that now fills this gap supporting Garmin and most …
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