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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”
Hidden behind the news of the first Intel powered iMacs and Macbooks (yuk – don’t like that name!!) Google released the official MacOS version of Google Earth. Having played with the beta for the last month or so, it works very much the same as the windows version, and will work on relatively low spec …
Thanks to John, one of the OS semantic web experts for pointing out that Tim Berners-Lee has started a blog. Some of my colleagues at the OS have in the past discussed the importance of GI with Tim, and he recognises geographic information as an important component to the semantic systems of the future. Now …
Before Christmas I took part in the recording of the BBC Radio 4 shoptalk radio show which was broadcast yesterday, the Real Audio archive is here. Drop me a comment if you would like an mp3 version… I was very impressed by the quality of research carried out before hand, the excellent questions asked of …
By using spacebourne atomic clocks, Europes chefs will be able to produce the perfect boiled egg. Ok so I am joking.. but based on the reporting so far of todays successful launch of the Giove-A satelitte – I would not be surpised to find it somewhere. Make no mistake Galileo when operational will be a …
I knew there was a reason why I worked for a government organisation.. from tomorrow I’m on holiday for two weeks – time to catch up on some reading, DVD’s and to try out building a ruby on rails application !! Preparing for the holidays got me in a reflective mood looking back over the …
Read more “2005 The message of the year – “It’s the content – stupid””
Adena at All Points Blog points out the rather exaggerated reports in the UK computing press about the upcoming lanuch of Giove-A a micro-satellite developed in Guildford. Rather than be used my mobile phone users to locate cinema listings !!! Giove-A has just one important job to do.. Giove (Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element)-A is designed …
Continuing the excellent online developments at the BBC, its News Archive site has been launched this week. It allows users to download 80 video clips of major news events for use with their own non-commerical projects. While the technology behind this is interesting and of course the content is fantastic, what I think is most …
Appleinsider report that the Mac OS X port of Google Earth is on the way.. Seems to be a straight port of the windows version, although the claims made by Appleinsider that the imagery will be improved, must be false.
Jeff Thurston at Vector One has come up with one of my favourite Google Earth images of the year. All those hours learning about geometric correction and orthrectification were not wasted !
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