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Wired reports on progress in the US on E911 legislation which requires mobile operators to pass the location of emergency calls to the emergency services. Despite a 2005 deadline most providers it appears are only now getting to the position where location data is available and unlike in Europe the route adopted has been through …
Last week I was asked to make a presentation to the Ordnance Survey Partner Conference, and I took as my topic the innovation that is taking place under the banner of “Web 2.0” My first surprise was how few of the attendees had heard the term “web 2.0” before, I wonder if this is representative …
I’ve have been at the Ordnance Survey 5 years now.. and at times I would be the first to admit that life has often been very frustrating… The organisation has come on leaps and bounds in many ways over this time, but I still feel like the proverbial “captain of a oil tanker” trying to …
I blogged a few weeks ago about the generally unrecognised potential value of geospatial “attention data”, the information which describes what we are interested in, as manifested by the information we leave behind when we use web-sites. The BBC today reports on Googles harvesting of its attention data using its new Trends analytic tools. It …
As promised to those of you who attended the BCS Geospatial Interest Group meeting on Monday night, my slides are now available here
Like a spurned lover, I was beginning to feel neglected having been ignored last week by the Guardian’s “Free our Data Campaign”, but this week we are back to normal with a piece describing the efforts of the OpenStreetMap team to Map the Isle of Wight last weekend. In the past I have made it …
This evenings Evening Standard, London’s evening newspaper reports that for the first time London’s Black Taxi Cab drivers are to be allowed to supplement they “Knowledge” of the streets of London with GPS navigation systems. For the Public Carriage Office, not an organisation known for its grip on technology (have you ever tried to pay …
I’ve just got back from the inaugural meeting of the British Computer Society’s Geospatial Interest Group, another example of GI hitting the mainstream. I was asked a number of questions on positioning technology and the accuracy of data, which reminded me that the OS has just completed it’s Positional Accuracy Improvement (PAI) programme. Like most …
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With more than a passing resemblance to the switcher ads of a few years ago, Apple has launched a campaign focusing on some of the differences between macs and PC’s. Very funny, but not likely to develop the cult following of Ellen Feiss, although the PC guys does seem strangely familar..
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