BBC Radio 4’s flagship breakfast radio show, the Today Programme is holding a vote, to allow a group of listeners to edit the show on New Years day. One team of listeners David Lambert, Dan Raven-Ellison and Hannah Bosher are suggesting using Geography to frame the days issues and to understand the impact of “space’ …
Tim Berners-Lee makes another of his rare and insightful postings on his blog commenting on the media’s view of his new Web Science Research Initiative. I’m not alone I’m sure, in thinking that the WSRI, a joint initiative between MIT and the great people at Southampton University, which looks to view the growth of the …
As a A-Level Physics student, I used to love reading New Scientist in the School Library – I could at least understand it.. maybe reading too much of it, resulted in my spectacular failure at the subject ? Still its good to see Ordnance Survey Research Labs joint research with Southampton University making this weeks …
As I have noted before, OS is interested in GeoDRM activities as a way of standardising how rights to access information and the transfer of those rights between individuals and groups is standardised as much as possible. Of course we also need to track developments in the more contentious area of data and IP protection …
This week I was interviewed by the guys at Very Spatial for their weekly podcast. Despite a few Skype problems, no doubt down to student enduced network issues, all worked in the end. To listen to this podcast or to subscribe to Very Spatial, follow this link. It’s well worth having a look through the …
With the UK mash-up day coming up at the end of the week, this blog post by J. LeRoy is very timely. It reports on the response of the Fire Deptartment of Seattle to a google maps mash-up of 911 calls, the dept. has now removed the feed replacing it with a jpeg image. The …
So Google pays nearly £900m for YouTube, well done Chad and Steve !! But just imagine it they had attempted to get investment from the BBC’s Dragons Den programme instead of Sequoia Capital.. Chad and Steve – We have this great idea.. a site where people upload they home videos and then let everybody view …
I remember the first time I used Satellite Navigation (Satnav), it involved a copy of Auto-route on a pentium powered laptop, a serial cable, a Garmin GPS45 receiver and a lot gaffer (duct) tape – but it worked !! In many ways today’s portable satnavs have not really changed the way they work much beyond …
Well actually, more complex than you might at first think… If you have bought a map online from Ordnance Survey in the past couple of weeks you will have used a redesigned store application that features a geographic search capability which recommends mapping products based on location. This is actually a more difficult process than …
Every year Ordnance Survey sponsors the AGI Student of the Year of the year award, this years closing date is on Friday (6th October) so if you are a Lecturer of/or a student of a GIS related discipline who has finished studies in the last year, don’t miss your chance and enter for the award.
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