Category: LINKS

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.

Free Wifi on the bus
First group in Wales are installing wifi on their route between Cardiff and Swansea, something that the Google commuter buses have had for a while in California, really useful and a first in the Uk I think.

Two Mobiles.. then you may be a Terrorist
I don’t know many people who work in tech who don’t have a least two mobile phones (home and work anyone), well Scotland Yard just think that’s suspicious.. Heaven knows what they might think of my laptops encrypted hard drive.

Birmingham fills NLPG hole
For many years the NLPG GB address database, Local Governments competitor to the OS addresspoint database, had a big whole in it called Birmingham, well seems no longer. Is just a shame you can’t license it !!

Oh, and Fake Ed is having a party

Written and Submitted from the Hilton Trinidad, using the hotels broadband network.

Unhackable
A nice geeky cover version Bob Ricci “Unhackable”.

OGC and GopherCan OGC W*S services be compared to Gopher (Who remembers Gopher) ? Interesting argument, I think I agree although WMS could just be the exception. Does that mean SDI efforts will end up like Veronica ?

OS Openspace Example
One of the first OS Openspace API example linking to Google Maps Imagery.

OpenGeodata in India
Neogeography travel writing as Mikel and Schuyler take Opengeodata ideas to India.

Mac users are Snobs…
It’s all true..

Written and Submitted from the Google Office, London.