You had better not take your laptop… Like many of my fellow tech workers in London, I carry my powerbook plus other kit in a rucksack and following the events of 7/7 have joked about how we must appear to others. This is no longer a joking matter however and the extent to which the …
So after months of speculation and delayed launch dates, the i-tunes phone is released – and its a lemon ! An ugly old Motorola phone, the MotoROKR phone does not allow you to download music via a mobile network, you cannot sync songs using bluetooth and it has a Motorola user interface – remember no …
David Sonnen captures very well the current “State of the Nation” as far as the GI industry is concerned in his Directions Magazine article Spatial Information Management (SIM) – Then, Now, Next . I think David is right to see the disruptive effect of “big guys” on the established GI industry – funny to think …
Not to be outdone by the team from Southampton, Martin Daly “the Alpha Geek” at Cadcorp sent this screenshot to illustrate the point, that they are also able to parse Mastermap GML and produce KML data. It’s great to see the companies who have supported the standards in the past really been able to exploit …
I got a call from a old friend earlier this week, who pointed me in the direction of an IT Conversations podcast which I had missed. Like many of IT conversations programmes this was a recording of a conference session, in this case the Web 2.0 conference held last October, and the topic was a …
Thanks to Eddie and Ian at Snowflake who have written a plugin to their Go Publisher product, it is now possible to view, rather flat, Mastermap topo data in google earth – the secret behind the scenes here is our old friend GML. It was relatively easy for the guys a Snowflake (it took a …
NTL today announced that it will roll out 10Mbps broadband cable connections to its current customers at no extra cost. Great news – now if only their merger with telewest happens soon…
William Heath and the The Ideal Government Project blog are running a competition over the summer for people to build a mapping mashup application which displays any government dataset on free online mapping. OS is providing the prizes in the form of OS Select maps. Some great examples already including this example which maps recent …
Mobile GMaps is a J2ME application which allows you to use Google Maps on your mobile phone! – VERY COOL !! As a java application is works on most modern phones which have http access enabled, works well on my SE V800 using UMTS it is also pretty fast !! You have to handle it …
Just came upon this, site while researching my talk for next weeks cc Exchange conference at the OS in Southampton. Another Google Maps API app but great fun, love this picture of a Tomcat in flight…
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