As Brady from O’Reilly pointed out early this week, the new iPhone 3.0 software and new iPhone 3G S have some major improvements that will further accelerate the development of exciting new location aware applications. The iPhone now joins the two Android powered HTC phones in having a high quality networked assisted GPS, a digital …
It was all looking so good.. As announced in the budget day strategy document, the Ordnance Survey was amongst others things asked to focus its corporate resources at increasing the amount of innovation around it’s products and services. Last week the OS launched their Geovation website, and have opened up somewhat their OpenSpace API – all very positive.. But then this …
Tuesday of this week I along with 700 others spent a wonderful evening being entertained by the wonderful Stephen Fry at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), London. In a lecture theatre which had heard, first hand, the exploits of the great explorers Livingstone, Scott, Shackleton and in the modern era Neil Armstrong, we listened to a great Englishman who admitted to be awed to …
I gave a presentation at the Digital Cities Seminar yesterday and was fascinated by some of the maps Sir Terry Farrell showed as part of his presentation which will be featured in his new book Shaping London. It is always refreshing to look at how people other than cartographers choose to represent geospatial information, the image below taken from Terry’s presentation show the …
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I must commend the Ordnance Survey for publishing their new strategy as a wordpress blog, along the lines of the Power of Information final report, this is really a very good idea. It’s a pity it’s not working at the moment, hope the error message is not a bad sign..I’m sure this is a server …
The Treasury has spoken.. (that in itself gives you a sense of where this might be heading !!) From the Treasury Operational Efficiency Programme report published yesterday.. “The OEP has concluded so far that Ordnance Survey needs to be more customer-focused and commercially driven. The Government is therefore publishing a new commercial strategy for the Ordnance …
Whilst hunting through YouTube for a video to use in a presentation, I came across this video. If I remember rightly this was the first time a viral video was produced by any part of the UK government, I might be mistaken on that, but the video was not met with universal acclaim in Southampton.. Shame a …
Its great to see my own local authority making great use of Google Maps, as pointed out by the Mapperz team , Richmond Council have produced a series of maps using Google Maps to illustrate most of their local services, including a pet subject of mine Recycling sites. There is much to be said for a very simple approach like this, the …
A picture taken from near the Google Offices in Dublin.. Lansdowne Road making good progress !
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