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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 …
My wife Lisa, loves the Channel 4 TV programme Location, Location, Location in which Phil and Kirstie our friendly property experts, try to find a new house for a member of the general public who think they know what they want, but almost always don’t have enough money. I mention this, as today I attended …
After a number of years planning, we finally got round to signing the contract to build a new micro satellite dedicated to the needs of the Ordnance Survey. MapSat will be built over the next 18 months by Guildford Space Projects, and launched in 2009 using a COSMOS launch vehicle. MapSat will feature a 2m …
Thanks to Leah for pointing out this Quiz to me, a great way to finish off a heavy week. So I got 9/10 but them I’m a confessed Apple geek – Leah on the other hand guessed and got 6 !!!
Google are now trialing more sophisticated sponsored locations, including company logo and url. As noted before, we should not be surprised by this, the basic Google business model is built on advertising, expected to be worth $7.5b next year, and there is no such thing as a free map !!
Peter Cochrane this week in his blog, talks about the potential of technology such as Iris scanning to spend up the process of security checks at airports. As someone who has passed through Heathrow a couple of times in the last month, what I want to understand is what has gone wrong with the x-ray …
I flew into Dubai this morning to attend the second Map Middle East Conference, and was knocked over by the presentation of Michael Jones CTO of the Google Earth/Map/Local team. Jones presented the vision for Google’s “geography” applications, which was breathtaking in its scope. Building on the Google mission to organise the worlds data, Jones …
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