Category: LINKS

Gordon Browns speech at Google Zeitgeist yesterday, it great to see the UK Government really beginning to use tools like Earth to publish their data, there is still a long way to go of course, but this is a great example from the top !

Android and LBS
More of the LBS potential of Android

And finally ..

R/C Helicopters and political protest
Following a chat with a old friend I’m thinking of getting into radio controlled helicopters, eventually as sensor platforms, but this must be one of the funniest uses of an indoor model, and a rapidly developing web meme.

Written and submitted from the Mirbeau Hotel, Skaneateles, using its free 802.11 network.

GeoWeb 2008 Conference registration open
GeoWeb, one of the highest quality GIS GI conferences held every year in beautiful Vancouver is open for Registration

Apple Store staff become Star Trek cast members
According to ifoapplestore.com, Apple Store staff are to wear colour coded shirts denoting their expertise with slogans specifc to their jobs, Specialists in light blue with “I can talk about this stuff for hours”, Creative experts in dark blue “No pain, no gain”.

I just feel sorry for the security guys in red “I’ll be dead 10 minutes into the episode”

Help where am I
Interesting story many of us can relate to on when technology does not work as it should. In this case the answer is in the comments.

Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.

Milliways: Play the legendary game
Once upon a time, I used to love playing infocoms classic interpretation of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the brilliant waxy.org, brings news of the unfinished sequel Milliways, which has been found, and is playable !!

Location aware twitter comes to the iPhone
I just don’t see the point of twitter, but it’s now location aware with the soon to be released Twinkle application, location has the potential to add something to social networking for sure..

A Satnav that avoids Manchester
Ah.. the old sterotypes… Still a Satnav, that plugs into crime data is under development by Honda in Japan, traffic data and weather were the obvious first steps in integrating other GI data onto these devices, soon perhaps we will see the whole range of geodemographics available as we drive around.

Walking Hotspot
Sometime you come across an application that is just cool, like walkinghotspot, an application to turn your 3G wifi phone into a mobile wifi hotspot.

Written and submitted from Vancouver Airport, BC, using its free public 802.11 network

Geographic Naming continued
Excellent, thoughtful post by Mikel on the problem of Geographic Naming on Internet Maps, as for Cyprus, like Wokingham in OSM, we still need to do it 🙂

Sea level rise Mash-up
Interesting way to visualise the potential impacts of Sea Level Rise, from an organisation called Global Warming Art, who are themselves an interesting example of the product of the impact of democratising technology on peoples understand of science.

Virgin Media CEO talks b****cks
Neil Berkett, Virgin Meida CEO attacks net neutrality, calling it b****cks. Well b****cks to you and your rubbish service Neil !

Whereyougonnabes first day
If nothing else Peter Batty wins the prize for the neogeograophy service with the longest name, his impressions of the first day of his facebook application as a live service. I could not get it to work in Safari, but they are working on it 🙂

Written and submitted from just north of Nassjo, Sweden from an SJ X2000 train, using it’s onboard 802.11 network.

Emerging Mass Market Geo Standards
Andrews Turners excellent presentation to last weeks OGC Technical Committee meeting. Ask yourself, how many of these technologies you knew / could explain, many of these will be important to the GI industry over the next few years.

Sokwanele
With the continued concern over the election held last weekend, the Sokwanle site which has been mapping the election conditions in Zimbabwe, is an important example of our the new tools of the geoweb have allowed new communities of users to map what is important to them. The politicisation of mapping is not new and maps have been used to make political points for as long as there have been maps, but now the process is open to all, not just governments.

Preserved Ukrainian military aircraft at Poltava AB


Aviation geek image, from one of my very favourite Google Earth related site, IMINT & Analysis, informed image interpretation from Sean O’Connor. In this case I just love these cold-war era bombers, once so secret now museum pieces.

Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.

There was only every going to be one winner !
Very entertaining online debate featuring Fake Steve Jobs

Wifi no more..
Interesting article on silicon.com, I must admit I don’t spend as much time wifi hunting as I used to before getting my 3 dongle.

Dual Maps from Map Channels
Very neat multiple API site allows you to combine data from Google Maps (including streetview) and Microsoft Virtual Earth

Nuvi Phone in Action
Video of the new Nuvi phone in use, can’t help but think the design is rather 1980’s compared to the iPhone

Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.

Kings College London Geodata Portal

One of the most comprehensive collections of environmental data rendered using Google Earth.

Explanation of Tech, using paper
Have you seen the great video explaining how My Location works on youTube, it was produced by Seattle based Common Craft who have published a series of similar videos on their site, doing a great job explaining things like RSS.

A useful proposed extension to GeoRSS
Andrew Turner suggests multiple geometry’s as the next logical step for GeoRSS, I completely see the sense in this although the encoding of geometry still feels a little uncertain, is anybody using GML ?

Cloudmade gains series A funding of €2.4 million
Congratulations to Steve and Nick, is Cloudmade the Redhat of Opengeodata ? Well many see the potential, and the beer should be free down Putney way for the next couple of days.

Written and Submitted from the Google Office, London.

POSIPIX – Geo-referenced Stock Photos
With the geo-tagging of photos trend really taking off, a neat service for those looking for stock photos organised by place.. limited to a few cities but a cool idea. Thanks to Sanjay for the link

10 must have aps for your Symbian Phone
Nice to see Google well represented, in a list which represents what the future might hold for Android and iPhone 2.0

State of the Map 2008
The 2nd conference for all things to do with Open Geodata and the OpenStreetMap project will be in Limerick, Ireland this year, the and conference call for papers is now live. The conference last year was excellent, and I’m sure this years will live up to the the high standard. Who knows you might also bump into Fake Ed Parsons…

Jason’s 15 minutes of Fame
Well deserved… if you work in GIS in Local or Municipal Government, some motivation to keep up the good work.

Written and submitted from the Millennium Hotel, Singapore, using its broadband network.

Digital Geography Presentations
Slides from the excellent CASA,UCL and NCeSS Day last month.

Call for more mobile masts
Some sense in the Mobile Phone debate from someone who should know..

Lost in Spatial
A new Geospatial blog from my old friend Martin Daly, CTO of Cadcorp – Danger Will Robinson, Danger!!

TripTouch
A nice mash-up based travel planning site, cool in that it really uses the web 2.0 world bringing together Google Maps, The Weather Channel for local context, Kayak for booking and Eventful for local events in a nice simple interface.

Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.