The past couple of months seems to have offered a cathartic opportunity for the relatively small UK Geographic Information Industry to get some long terms issues off its collective chest. In no particular order we have seen the following public responses to the Consultation for the future of Ordnance Survey. (Let me know if you know of any more.. updated – …
In a real test of democracy, a widely regarded poor piece of legislation is currently making it’s way through parliament without much scrutiny to make sure it becomes law before the upcoming election. The Digital Economy Bill is wide-ranging and addresses an increasingly important part of the British Economy, yet it’s hard not to get …
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A public note of congratulations to the organisers of the weekendsWherecamp EU , well done it was a massive success! It is often said that the most useful part of any conference are the conversations that happen in the hallways or over lunch, and the bar-camp format used this weekend makes the most of this by doing …
It is always a nice opportunity to speak to people who are not GI Industry experts or mapping mavens but who are “normal” people whose lives are however impacted by Geospatial Technology. On Monday I has the massive pleasure of meeting some of the business owners located on Shambles which was a winner in one …
I spent the beginning of a very busy week last week talking about the benefits of making public sector data more accessible. I was speaking at the launch of public transit data in Brussels, where the local public transport agency STIB made their schedule information available for use within Google Maps in Belgium. As in …
No my blog has not been hacked, but to help the other Dad’s out there who will come across this problem here are the instructions to set the time on a Brio Watch. Not heard of them, you don’t have a tweenager then. My Daughter returned from her hols with her new watch..”Dad can you …
This is a bit of fun, we have a great team of developers in Sydney who work of the Maps API amongst other things and yesterday launched for the worlds enjoyment a bunch of Labs features to Google Maps which basically allow you to do cool stuff. One tool allows you to flip you map, …
Sometimes you can’t beat a simple story.. On this side of the pond it is had to understand just how big a deal the Superbowl is in the US, it remains one of the few remaining occasions when most of the country sits down and watches the same rectangle of moving pixels at the same …
So Apple are banning location based advertising apps, as a result of their recent purchase of Quattro Wireless. Well that would seem to follow the usual Apple control freakery, well I’m not so sure.. I think Apple is actually doing the right thing, setting best practice for developing apps that use location. What they actually …
So its the iPad, a large iPod Touch and the blogosphere has spoken, it’s a fail. Well that’s not quite the end of the story as I see it, the key point to understand in the importance of Apple’s new device is to recognise that computers and the web are no longer the preserve of the …
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