David Maguire starts blog..
David Maguire ESRI’s director of products has begun a blog. Should make interesting reading… it you want to see the direction the GIS industry is heading, this will be a place to look.
LBS when ?
I was part of a panel today at the The Mobility Summit an event organised by the European Technology Forum and Cnet Networks. The panel discussed the emergence of more precisely the lack of emergence of Location Based Services as a section of the mobile data industry. The point I argued, as I have before, …
Not your grandfathers GIS textbook!!
Spent the weekend flicking through a very cool new book on GI and GIS technologies, “Mapping Hacks” a product of the people behind the mapping hacks website. This is great stuff, it bites off all the basic principles of GeoData in small chunks, from the perspective of someone actually trying to build practical solutions. This …
Where 2.0 – a wake up call ?
Daniel H. Stienberg pens a review of the where 2.0 conference at O’Reilly Network: The How and Who of Where. A whole new sector of the GI market is emerging based on open IT standards, and collaborative development. The old guard of the established mapping agencies needs to take note, although their core business will …
Google Sightseeing
Just came upon this, site while researching my talk for next weeks cc Exchange conference at the OS in Southampton. Another Google Maps API app but great fun, love this picture of a Tomcat in flight…
Official Google Maps API
As reported by O’Reilly Radar Google have released an official API to their google maps application at the Where 2.0 conference. Website developers can legitimately embed google maps in their application for no charge !! – Mapquest et al… the clock is ticking. But you ask how can this work, google has to pay teleatlas, …
Where 2.0.. when GeoData went mainstream
This week sees the O’Reilly Where 2.0 conference take place in San Francisco, which I believe marks a turning point for the GeoData and GIS industries if they want to take it. Where 2.0 gives a pointer to the direction the geodata industry will go if the likes of Google and Microsoft in the form …
The end of maps !!
The BBC report that the rise of satnav spells the end of the map as an in-car navigation tool. I think there is some truth in this, although I still carry a half million scale map in case of system failure in my satnav equipped car. A point which the article could have made more …
Even Google Maps need cartographers.
Spot the deliberate mistake ? I am a huge fan of google maps a well designed application and great user expereice, however can you spot the problem on this map of Europe.. Look closely and you will see a error in the text placement routine which means that.. Belgium has swapped places with the Netherlands …
LBS outside the garden
Listening to the Adam Curry podcast this morning, who described using google local on his mobile to give his cab driver directions to a hotel.. LBS is alive and well outside the network operators “walled gardens” it seems.