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Once again the Guardian Newspaper in the UK (which I read incidentally) has got caught up in the free geospatial data debate. I quote..”Our taxes fund the collection of public data – yet we pay again to access it. Make the data freely available to stimulate innovation, argue Charles Arthur and Michael Cross ” The …
As James at Spatially Adjusted points out MapQuest joins GMY with it’s mapping API. Beyond the “Me too” aspects what is interesting here is that MapQuests’ business model is already very well established as an application service provider. So here the free API is almost a demo for its commerical services, as the T&C’s state.. …
It is not often you get driving instructions which use Rockets as landmarks, but picking up my hire car I was told to turn of the highway when I went passed the Saturn V ! Huntsville is very much a town with technology at it’s heart, home to the Marshall Space Centre, and numerous defence …
Today is the first birthday of my blog, one year ago today I wrote my first blog entry and a lot has happened since! In the industry we have seen the Web 2.0 meets mapping developments of GMY (Google, Microsoft and Yahoo), Google Earth and the announcement of ESRI”s ArcGIS Explorer a very important product …
Adena at All Points Blog links to an article on Galileo in the UK’s WhatPC magazine. Now I am a little sceptical about the business model to operate Galileo, but technically i think it is an appropriate solution, but one that has been oversold. While it is right to question the multitudes of “new” applications …
Expected to be announced at cebit next week a new generation of tomtom navigation systems will bring a larger screen, and the ability to play mp3 files downloaded via a pc application, which will also sync new mapping and points of interest databases. Think of iTunes for maps!! So device convergence continues…. Written and submitted …
There has been much comment around the GI blogosphere about the Microsoft Local Live teams latest development a “street” interface Although a little difficult to drive (hint – use the shift key to stick to the roads) it is great fun ! This is a really interesting highly interactive interface development, and is yet another …
I came across a great video last night at the tao of mac blog, what if the Microsoft package design team was responsible for creating the iPod box.. The video (beware wmv format) is funny but contains a really powerful message, how often do we in the geospatial industry over complicate the design of our …
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As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, The AGI Technical SIG is organising a meeting in Cambridge on the 27th April, there is now a detailed agenda. The use of Open-Source software has become increasingly prevalent in many areas of information technology. For example, the majority of web sites run on open-source web server software …
Earlier this year I was a guest on a BBC radio programme looking into Geospatial technology, one of the topics of debate was the growing industry of tracking. Now the BBC has followed this up on their World Service Programme Click this week. Although the report perhaps overplays the accuracy of mobile phone based tracking …
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