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Google maps (not local any more) now has street level mapping of most of Europe, expanding out from the mapping which has been available for the UK. As in the UK most of the mapping appears to be from Tele Atlas, with various imagery companies providing the imagery. Also new is a very nice dynamic …
Are you one of the addicted citizens of Second Life yet ? For those not familiar with it, Second Life is an on-line virtual world, in which you can interact with a community of 100,000 users from all around the world. The reason Second Life is generating so much buzz at the moment, it is …
The OS has just launched a commercial service through partners to provide a highly accurate real-time positioning service based on GPS called OSNet. This launch overshadowed the redevelopment of the Free (Yes Free !!) resources that are provided to users of GPS in Great Britain which includes a software library for software developers to translate …
Warning outrageous plug follows ; A Last minute reminder, the AGI Technical SIG ‘Open-Source in GIS’ Event is next week in Cambridge, it’s not too late to book a place with the AGI to attend. Find out why there is such as buzz in the industry for PostGIS, MapServer, MapGuide Open Source and the Open …
The effort to create a copyright free streetmap continues next month with a dedicated weekend of mapping the streets of Manchester. Sounds like it’s going to be a great weekend .. It is going to take a while, but I firmly believe one day they will be national open source datasets alongside the existing closed …
Read more “Mapchester – The open source mapping movement continues”
So this weeks Free our Data article attacking the OS (Do you think it’s personal ?) looks into the issue of inaccurate or perhaps out of date data in Navigation Systems and online mapping tools. These I believe are the facts as presented in Charles Arthurs latest article. – A street on which a house …
As a regular listener to Steve Gillmors’ Gillmor Gang podcast, I have become familiar with the concept of Attention, which is now entering the technology mainstream with a good writeup in MIT’s Technology Review Attention as a concept is a realisation that with the massive increase in content on the internet, both professional and “consumer” generated, …
Following a comment by Charles Arthur (yes he of the Free Our Data Campaign) that there were no UK based mapping mashups, I did a bit of a search and came up with this page which lists at least 22 mashups in the UK, and yes they all contain Ordnance Survey data licensed through partners. …
As a long time user of their OS MasterMap GML viewer, I was really pleased to see Snowflake release their new GML Viewer which Snowflake claims can display any GML2/3 application schema. The snowflake guys really understand GML, as an XML dialect, a good application should be able to parse the contents of a “new” …
Apple has released a beta of it’s Boot Camp technology, part of the next major release of OS X Leopard, it allows Intel mac users to dual boot either to OS X or Windows XP SP2. A useful tool, to those needing both systems, although rebooting systems will be a pain for the one windows …
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