Todays Guardian (Yes I do still read it 🙂 ) reports that the Police in the West Country are having to cope with high tech rave organisers who along with their MP3 powered sound systems are promoting their “illegal” gatherings by passing GPS co-ordinates via SMS to potential partygoers – expect another backlash against the technology from the usual quarters.
Expect a re-release of the Tony Christie classic “Show me the way to 35.185594,-101.824036” !
So this weekend, I indulged my passion for Aviation and went along to the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. Arriving just after the airfield opened, I was directed to park, as is usual at airshows, in a field alongside 20,000 other cars in an environment with no real landmarks – how was I going to find my car again at the end of the show ?
As a geospatial expert of course I had the solution to the problem in my bag, my trusty garmin GPS receiver within a minute or so I knew my car was parked at 51.67922,-01.81322.
Great I could now navigate back to my car at the end of the day, and be talked in by my Garmin.
BTW My car if you are interested, was parked here as shown in Google maps..
And the show.. excellent, star for me was the Boeing MV-22B Osprey tilt rotor. As a child the major influence on my understanding of technology was the TV series Thunderbirds, so I’m really pleased to see a design of aircraft that Gerry Anderson would appreciate.
To see my other pictures from the event just click on the picture above…
Silicon.com picks up on market rumours that Microsoft are viewing the Amsterdam based portable SatNav maker as an acquisition target…. If true, it would mean that Microsoft are really jumping into the consumer GI marketplace, are they after the great software platform or are they thinking of a new hardware business line ? Other than the Xbox MSFT don’t have a great track record with hardware…