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Jo Walsh reports on the Mapping Hacks website on the debate I attended at the society of cartographers conference on public access to data, and comments that the investments made on GPS and Photogrammetry by the OS is “viably unnecessary, easily outsourceable techno-toys.” OK Jo – why don’t you try and capture some data to …
Yesterday, the OS ran the first terrafutures event, a one day workshop to try and bring together scientists of all types, sociologists and IT experts to look into the future and spot the trends in technology and society that will impact on the GI industry. Some of the key findings included the future pervasivness of …
Recently announced the Garmin Nüvi is a GPS device clearly inspired by the success of the iPod. The Nüvi as well as a GPS routefinder is also an MP3 player with pda like functionality including a world clock, currency converter, image viewer and add-on travel & language guide software. Looks like the Tom-Tom has some …
I have just come across geoTorrent.org a website offering links to geodata sets hosted using the bit-torent peer to peer network protocol. The idea of distributing large geodata datasets as small chucks is quite appealing and I have no doubt that when open geodata becomes more mature – this will be the obvious mechanism of …
Back at the end of June, the O’Reilly media Where 2.0 conference took place in San Francisco and saw presentations from Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo amongst others on their perspective of the expanding mainstream GI market. The first audio recording from this conference is now available online at the ITConversations website. The Past and Future …
David Sonnen captures very well the current “State of the Nation” as far as the GI industry is concerned in his Directions Magazine article Spatial Information Management (SIM) – Then, Now, Next . I think David is right to see the disruptive effect of “big guys” on the established GI industry – funny to think …
Looks like I’m going to be having a busy September, following my vacation I’m back to talk at the Society of Cartographers Summer School in Cambridge and at a event we are holding at the OS called Terra future. The events although in many ways very different are both focusing in on the increasing use …
Tim Martin comments on the hype surrounding Google Earth, asking is google as much a hindrance as help to the GI industry? I think Tim is right to recognise some of the data quality issues apparent in both Google apps, but I think it is a mistake to see Google in any-ways trying to advance …
Read more “Google Geography Apps – Do they justify the hype ?”
As I metioned a week or so ago the BBC called as they were putting together a piece on Google Earth, well this morning Rory Cellan Jones produced this report (realplayer) for the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, the “must listen” breakfast show for the great and the good in the UK. No great insights.. …
Not to be outdone by the team from Southampton, Martin Daly “the Alpha Geek” at Cadcorp sent this screenshot to illustrate the point, that they are also able to parse Mastermap GML and produce KML data. It’s great to see the companies who have supported the standards in the past really been able to exploit …
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