Richard in his post at the OpenGeoData blog, highlights the work of Google’s Data Liberation Front which aims to make sure that user data hosted on Google servers can always be exported out for use in other services or applications. So what of Geodata, well contrary to popular opinion if you create a My Maps …
Mr Osborne over at his cloudsourced blog provides a taster to the Geomob thread at this months AGI conference along with details of a reduced day rate deal. This is really the reason I’m going along to the AGI this year, as you may remember I was disappointed with the introspection and backwards thinking demonstrated at …
Mobilizy, the Austrian developers of the first mainstream Augmented Reality (AR) application for the Android Platform have been experimenting over the summer and have developed Wikitude Drive a simple navigation system with as your would expect a AR interface. As you can see from the youtube video it’s a interesting concept, and certainly something with great …
I have been quoted in a report from ZDNet Asia about the future for stand alone GPS devices. While I agree with the general point of the article in that stand alone GPS devices are not yet doomed, I think we are beginning to see just how useful location is when integrated with other information. …
I’m a happy user of a new app for the iPhone called RouteBuddy Atlas, a maps application for the iPhone which provides legal access to OS mapping (and note is obviously not to be confused with the native iPhone maps application, whose functionality it in no way replicates 🙂 ) I have long been a …
Phil Willis MP, has tabled an Early Data Motion in Parliament calling for the UK Government to support the Museum at Bletchley Park, home of WWII codebreakers and the birthplace of computing. The motion reads ; “That this House recognises the signficance of Bletchley Park, historic site of secret British code-breaking activities during the Second World …
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Great to see a little bit of humour applied the the serious stuff of freeing up Government Data. ernestmarples.com, is a project which is making available via an API the Post Office Address (PAF) file. I wonder how the Post Office will respond to this piece of civic minded provocation. There is no doubt that …
I’ve spent last week at the Open Geospatial Consortium Technical Committee meeting held at the truly stunning Stata Center building of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Very much business as usual for this important standards making body, but on the first day of the meeting there was a one day summit on the specific issue of …
The 11th Spatial Data Infrastructure Conference was held last week in Rotterdam, and like many SDI conference the focus of presentations and the profile of attendees was largely from the pubic sector, and in many cases public sector data producers. Many of the sessions investigated in depth, progress to date across the many local, regional and …
Way back when I was a lowly Masters student studying Remote Sensing, one of the most exciting developments at the time was the availability of imagery from the new French satellite SPOT. At the time this was a huge leap forward with 10m resolution imagery captured by a solid state push broom scanning system, it represented as big a …
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