Google Earth for the Mac
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.
Why Google Earth is not used for instrument landings..
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 !
The Wikipedia Wars – what does it mean for geodata?
You may have picked up on the debate bouncing around the net on the problems Wikipedia is suffering. Wikipedia, for those back from the desert island is the community based encyclopaedia that has been seen as one of the great success stories of the web. The problems which hit the news last week have focused …
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When is a map not a map.. when it’s Mastermap
It’s funny how sometimes you can have a couple of conversations with people, which all seem to be coming from the same perspective but are unrelated. This happened to me last week in talking to a few people about Mastermap and peoples perception of it. Mastermap was launched almost exactly four years ago and has …
Snowflakesoft and the butterfly effect
Today I delivered the keynote presentation at the first Snowflake Software User Conference. Snowflake for those who don’t know are a small UK company set up by a couple of ex-Ordnance Survey people who specialise in developing XML applications for the GI industry. Although a small team, the work that Snowflake do has had a …
Peter Cochrane on GPS
Interesting post by Peter Cochrane noting the reliance people have on GPS navigation as it becomes more widespread. As noted in this blog before, the potential result could be that users perception of location and distance change as geograhphical knowledge is replaced by the female voice of the navigation system. As Peter notes this may …
MapServer to be supported by Autodesk
Today sees the creation of the MapServer Foundation a group to support the ongoing development of the Minnesota MapServer project with the backing on Autodesk and DM Solutions. This seems to be the first time one of the “big” traditional GIS vendors has jumped onboard with Open-source, the replacement for Autodesk’s MapGuide will be “MapServer …
Big Brother or Mary Poppins does LBS ?
Silicon.com reports that NTT DoCoMO have introduced a new “child friendly’ phone for use with their Imadoco service, one of the first child tracking services introduced about five years ago. There seems to be a lot of comments about the potential civil liberty issues of tracking children, and in particular with the new SA800i phone …
Frappr! The geography of communities
I have been playing with Frappr! the google map mash-up which has really caught peoples imaginations. In some ways it combines mapping with sites like friends reunited or friendster which create and join up online communities. This is really powerful stuff, it may sound very geeky but finding out there is someone doing the same …
Google opens London office to focus on Mobile apps
Silicon.com reports that Google has just opened it’s second London Office to concentrate on the development of mobile applications – although Google claim to have no plans to be developing location based services I seen this as clear evidence of LBS 2.0 moving forward. LBS 2.0 I see as a range of applications where location …
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