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For those of you in the UK this may be a little bit of a surprise, GIS Day has always been seen as a ESRI marketing event and therefore has never really gained much momentum in the UK, I think there are just five events in total this year. This is a shame, GIS Day …
Jessie and Sue featured the terrafuture podcasts on their Very Spatial podcast episode 17. Jessie and Sue are a pair of academics who produce a weekly show on Geography and GIS technology, and although rather US centric is really worth subscribing to. This week’s discussion focused on the topic of private or personal data, interesting …
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As a ex-Autodesk employee, I was very interested to watch co-founder of Autodesk Dan Drake describe the development of the first version of AutoCAD on NerdTV, a PBS show hosted by Silicon Valley guru Robert X Cringley and available to download as an mpeg. Other interviews on NerdTV include Tim O’Reilly, Dave Winer and Andy …
At the AGI conference this week Graham Vowles presented a paper on the development of GeoDRM Geographic Digital Rights Managment, and in the debate which followed a consensus seemed to point to the best type of DRM offered only “just enough” protection. Mark’s Sysinternals Blog illustrates how DRM can go too far. Another reason to …
Amazing how tired you can get after just three days… maybe it was the party that did it ! So the end of this years conference got be thinking about how the nature of the annual GI industry conference has changed over the years. This year was I think a little bigger than last year …
Yesterday was the first day at AGI 2005, the UK’s main event for GIS professionals. I must admit I was rather disappointed by the quality of the plenary session, which contrasted with some excellent presentations in the parallel sessions. Both the local Government sessions and in particular for me the session on designing GI systems …
All Points note the development of a blog by an unnamed USGS employee. The continued disruption to the USGS and the potential of outsourcing large proportions of its activities to commercial operators is clearly causing some concern amongst its staff. At the end of the day I believe that the collection of national spatial data …
As requested by Mike, here are the links to download the mp3’s directly rather than use itunes Future Britain – Richard Scase The Geospatial Semantic Grid – Jayant Sharma Disruptive Technologies – Robin Mannings Hey Dude where’s my database – Andrew Duff Written and submitted from the Novotel Hotel, York, using the hotels wifi network.
Announced today Yahoo! Maps is a consumer web map service similar to Google with an open API but in addition to the expected AJAX API Yahoo offers a Flash version as well. On first impressions the cartography is similar to Google using Teleatlas and Navteq data but without imagery. Of real interest to me is …
The Terrafuture podcasts are now all available on iTunes if you need the individual mp3 links just shout. There seems to be a bug with the artwork on the podcast description at the moment, but I hope to get that sorted in the next 24 hours. Written and submitted from the Corrus Hotel, Bristol, using …
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