I’ve have been at the Ordnance Survey 5 years now.. and at times I would be the first to admit that life has often been very frustrating… The organisation has come on leaps and bounds in many ways over this time, but I still feel like the proverbial “captain of a oil tanker” trying to …
I blogged a few weeks ago about the generally unrecognised potential value of geospatial “attention data”, the information which describes what we are interested in, as manifested by the information we leave behind when we use web-sites. The BBC today reports on Googles harvesting of its attention data using its new Trends analytic tools. It …
This evenings Evening Standard, London’s evening newspaper reports that for the first time London’s Black Taxi Cab drivers are to be allowed to supplement they “Knowledge” of the streets of London with GPS navigation systems. For the Public Carriage Office, not an organisation known for its grip on technology (have you ever tried to pay …
I’ve just got back from the inaugural meeting of the British Computer Society’s Geospatial Interest Group, another example of GI hitting the mainstream. I was asked a number of questions on positioning technology and the accuracy of data, which reminded me that the OS has just completed it’s Positional Accuracy Improvement (PAI) programme. Like most …
Sorry Dr. Maguire, better luck next year !
As a regular listener to Steve Gillmors’ Gillmor Gang podcast, I have become familiar with the concept of Attention, which is now entering the technology mainstream with a good writeup in MIT’s Technology Review Attention as a concept is a realisation that with the massive increase in content on the internet, both professional and “consumer” generated, …
So how cool is you site, do you use AJAX? is your content developed by a community of interested users as an experiment is social networks, do you have millions of users and no obvious business model (hang on.. that can’t be right), in other words is your site on the Web2.0 List. If you …
Following a comment by Charles Arthur (yes he of the Free Our Data Campaign) that there were no UK based mapping mashups, I did a bit of a search and came up with this page which lists at least 22 mashups in the UK, and yes they all contain Ordnance Survey data licensed through partners. …
Apple has released a beta of it’s Boot Camp technology, part of the next major release of OS X Leopard, it allows Intel mac users to dual boot either to OS X or Windows XP SP2. A useful tool, to those needing both systems, although rebooting systems will be a pain for the one windows …
My wife Lisa, loves the Channel 4 TV programme Location, Location, Location in which Phil and Kirstie our friendly property experts, try to find a new house for a member of the general public who think they know what they want, but almost always don’t have enough money. I mention this, as today I attended …
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