For a few years now I have often talked and made presentations on the theme of “Ambient Location”, the ability of Geospatial applications mostly on our mobile devices to share their location to services in the cloud, which in turn has allowed useful real time information products to be developed. The most obvious example of …
Over the last month we have all become regular video conference participants, of course very much par for the course for me but the rest of the family are now taking part in online quizzes, community meetups and have become experts in the use of tools such as Zoom, Houseparty, and even Microsoft teams ! …
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So the saying goes, you wait ages for a bus and then an Open Data project comes along .. I was asked to speak at the launch event of the UK Dept. of Transport Bus Open Data Digital Services (BODDS) yesterday which aims to provide open data for England complex network of buses outside of …
Does not quite have the same significance as 31 December 1999, but I’m sure someone in the mainstream press will soon draw the parallels with Y2K with stories of Airliners getting lost or Trading systems failing due to timing errors, April 6th 2019 is the date when GPS systems reset ! Actually for the second …
What inspired you as a child ? A child today hopefully seeing the exploits of Elon Musk and Space-X launching and recovering rockets with showmanship seldom demonstrated by serious rocket scientists may have their interest sparked in science and technology? Personally my love of technology came yes from rocket science, but also crucially from growing …
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LHR – JFK don’t those six letters cause some excitement to even the most seasoned traveller, there is still just a little romance left in air travel. Romance here is the “feeling of mystery, excitement and remoteness from everyday life” as opposed to love ! For me part of the romance comes from the Airport …
You might notice a redesign of my site today, nothing major really a little less clutter hopefully, but the reason for the change is really behind the scenes. This site is now using the encrypted version of the web protocol https. Once only a requirement for sites taking payments and banking increasingly all types of …
This must be what a salmon feels like.. A urge to swim against them stream in my case to support Brexit when it seems all of my family and friends are very much in the remain camp. It’s very easy to understand why, in fact with a campaign hijacked by zeonophobic, lunatic rasists supporting the …
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I am helping to organise a Workshop on Spatial Data on the Web 2016 at the 9th International Conference on Geographic Information Science Montreal, Canada – September 27-30. 2016. Workshop Description and Scope In their first joint collaboration, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have established the Spatial Data on the Web …
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