This week I’m catching up with people at the Googleplex in Mountain View, more mind expansion for me… one of the most drop dead cool things I have seen however has come from London and the increasing impressive Digital Urban blog. Andy and his team at CASA, part of UCL are really extending what we …
So you may have been wondering why I have not really written a huge amount about Google so far here.. well unlike my previous employer Google is well versed in the business of blogging and the Geo team have been working on a team blog which is now online at Google LatLong – Enjoy ! …
You may have picked up on the rumors that I have a new job, well it’s true !! This week I joined Google as the Geospatial Technologist for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and to say I am excited would be somewhat of an understatement. Google (and yes Microsoft and Yahoo as well 🙂 …
Well somebody gets it !! Sometimes just surfing for some unrelated information brings up a really interesting nugget of information like this. Clearly the guys in MV get it.. it’s all about context !! Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
It’s been a couple of weeks now since Google announced that its main search engine is now able to search and parse KML files, the native file format for Google Earth. This was widely reported in the blogosphere but with little comment, I’m not sure most mainstream GIS users are even aware of the news.. …
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Where do you find the development team behind the Mac version of Google Earth, the night before the Macworld Expo, Yes they join the line outside to get the best keynote seats the night before. Well they get my respect!! That is real team building.. Well done Rose !! Written and submitted from home, using …
Tim Berners-Lee makes another of his rare and insightful postings on his blog commenting on the media’s view of his new Web Science Research Initiative. I’m not alone I’m sure, in thinking that the WSRI, a joint initiative between MIT and the great people at Southampton University, which looks to view the growth of the …
Just finished the plenary presentations at this years AGI conference, which actually nicely coincided with the latest revision of both Virtual Earth, Google Earth and the imminent release of ArcGIS explorer. For me the most interesting demo was the new Google Earth to be released tonight which brings a basic temporal capability, Michael Jones demonstrated …
BA and Google combine their offerings in a really interesting way with BA’s latest world offers campaign. I like that the viewer really gets a sense of “where” destinations actually are, using GE to “fly” between them, something often lost in our geography challenged generation. Got me thinking however, whose brand is using the others? …
Not when it comes to Geographic Information I would argue… Adena very well I think identified the massive interest in imagery demonstrated by the vendors at this years ESRI UC exhibition in her latest directions magazine editorial. Imagery is great as context to other types of spatial information, but on its own I believe it’s …
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