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.
Gizmondo – LBS games first steps
Happen to be passing the Gizmondo flagship store on Regent Street on Friday and poped in. Gizmondo are a UK based company and are trying to establish a handheld games platform similar at first glance to the PSP or Nintendo DS. What makes the Gizmondo interesting is that is that it is a network device …
More on Road Charging..
In my last post I commented on the potential of demand based road pricing and drew a comparison with the low cost airline pioneers of this. As Wired reports this is already reality. A section of Interstate 15 North of San Diego ( a busy section of road familar to me from trips to the …
Road User Charging – Don’t Panic !!
Yesterdays announcement, that the Government in looking into a system of road usage charging has resulted in the usual doom vendor calls of another government IT disaster in the making.. it is easy to agree with this based on the track record of delivery of big IT projects so far, but here I believe there …
A must read …
Great piece by Adena and Joe of Direstions Magazine, “An Open Letter to GIS/Geospatial Software Companies” – a very perceptive and I believe accurate view of the GI industry today – for me two take-aways “simple is good” and “data in king”.
Digital Maps – The end of the beginning
As this announcement suggests at some point in 1998 we may finally see the last Landline tile leave Southampton on a CD marking the end of the first generation of digital mapping in Great Britain. At that point Landline as a nationally complete product will be 13 years old and based on a production process …
Podcasting geodata…
I have just download the latest update of my favourite podcast client ipodderX, which amongst other new features offers the ability to embed any digital media within a podcast. The ability to add any enclosure to a podcast has been there from the beginning of podcasting many months ago !!! A podcast is just a …
Don’t mess with the map Part.2
Well with no great surprise the BBC has given into the 4,000 critical viewers (out of 10 million or so) and a few politicians looking for publicity and changed it’s weather maps. The animated fly around the British Isles has been retained thankfully as this is the most effictive part, but have been ‘slowed” as …
Addressing the address problem
After a massive amount of work behind the scenes involving many Ordnance Survey, ODPM, Local Authority and Royal Mail staff a solution to the creation of maintaining a national address database has been announced. For those not aware of the scale of the problem, many places in Britain that don’t get mail delivered to them …
TOIDS R US
Hats off to the Snowflake gang, who as part of their moving card have let us know their new TOID !! One day we will all know this information – well OK maybe not 🙂 but its good to see the idea of using feature identifiers communicated in a fun way. Written and submitted from …