An interesting article by the BBC’s Berlin correspondent on Germany’s problem with Street View. The article suggests part of the reason why Germany seems to have such a problem accepting a service that is used in many other developed countries is a cultural distrust of the new, and an inability to innovate. The article quotes …
So it seems where is as mainstream as its possible to get with most popular online services rolling location into their products to improve the quality of the service, be that finding friends, the location of interesting restaurants or where is the best place to buy a Nikon camera. As noted here on previous occasions, it is very easy …
Google Maps : Dear Dr. Ed, I seem to have developed a rash or well at least I’m completely covered in spots. Dr Ed : Don’t worry Maps, it just a new way of finding geocoded images contributed by the photographers of the web. If you have looked at Streetview ( by dragging the pegman) …
Unfortunately I’m a few thousand miles away from trying this app but I do have my access key! Last week London finally got its bike hire scheme something that just cries out for a location aware real time application to help users. So just in time Little Fluffy Toys have released their widget for Android …
There has been much in the blogosphere, tech and even mainstream press written about the relative merits of Flash and it’s use compared to the up and coming shinny new standard of HTML 5. While nobody other than possibly Adobe denies that HTML will be core to much of the future web, today there are …
By popular request here is the presentation I gave at last week’s GI-Forum in Salzburg. A great conference which I recommend if you are able to attend next year, 1000 GI people in one of Europe’s most attractive cities = success ! Not sure the slides will make much sense on their own, but please …
If so, can you tell me what’s wrong with this answer taken from a question asked in the House of Lords via the excellent theyworkforyou website… UK: Coastline House of Lords Written answers and statements, 23 June 2010 Lord Laird (Crossbench) To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the length of the United Kingdom coastline in …
I finally got the chance to watch the Apple WWDC keynote last night in my living room on the Apple TV, now that statement qualifies me as an Apple fanboy in itself. I have seen many stevenotes over the year, even one in person at a Macworld in New York a few years ago, but …
Mapnificent LondonI have for a while called out for some new cartographic approaches to communicating information which make use of the radically different capabilities of electronic displays compared to paper. To be fair I suppose the palette of tools available to the online cartography have been limited, and the state of the art was probably …
I’m writing this sitting in the back of the room, waiting to make a presentation during the annual Space Show in Toulouse, the closest Europe comes to having a city whose sole export is technology Seems, like I have been running around almost constantly for the last month, but tomorrow I have made a little time for …
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