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My earlier post on “paper mapping” and web services coincided with the OS Options conference which took place at the OS head office in Southampton today. In many ways the Options network represents the future of printed maps, it is a network of organisations which access an OS web application (developed using ArcIMS) which allows …
Jeff at Vector One writes about the impact that the increased use of web services may have on printing. As he points out while such services make complex business process more accessible to users – I would add both professional and the hackers; there is still a need communicate spatial information and this will result …
The latest Google Earth mystery to achieve fame has been reported by The Register , an apparent flying car spotted in Perth, Western Australia. What interests me most about this and the “black helicopter” spotting craze, is how these sightings rapidly travel around the community of Google Earth Users. Perhaps we are all guilty of …
Many of you may know of my fascination of all things aeronautic, so just move on if you are not interested… If you are well, just turn up the volume on your computer and enjoy the video below. You will need Quicktime and a room without children listening…
Chris Lightfoot the smart developer behind the mySociety websites dropped me an email over the weekend, with details of his latest project Postcodeine an AJAX based application that dynamically maps GB postcodes. OK so it may not be very useful, but it’s cool and Chris is making the code available under a GPL. And before …
Today I attended a meeting of around 30 UK based members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), called by David Schell and Mark Reichardt who are in the UK to canvas the opinions of OGC members. This example of the OGC wanting to understand the point of view of members based this side of the …
The BBC reported today on the launch of a project of the Spatial-Literacy group, a collection of universities working together to improve the understanding of spatial data in the “general public”. This is a fantastic project, although i must admit to being on its Advisory Committee, I think this is just the type of outreach …
Read more “The family names map a victim of it’s own success already ?”
Wired adds to the debate over the threat to civil liberties from web mapping sites like google and microsoft local. As seems to have been the case with much of the recent reporting, the issue is not so much with mapping, but the use of detailed imagery. One of the concerns expressed is the apparent …
Last years Where 2.0 conference was one of the most important conferences of 2005, and O’Reilly have just announced the dates for the 2006 conference to be held in San Jose, CA. in June. If it has anything like the content of last year it will be a must attend conference, in particular for the …
David Galbraith has spotted the arrival of blue pin markers on google local maps representing sponsored hotel locations, as well as the usual red ones. This was always going to happen, all that mapping data from Teleatlas, Digitalglobe, Navteq etc costs money…I predicted this back in June of last year, and to their credit Google …
Read more “And so it starts – Google Local (maps) get’s blue pins”
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