My hero as a six year old growing up in south west london, Peter Osgood the ‘King of Stamford Bridge’ made nearly 400 appearances for the Chelsea and scored 150 goals, but will always be remembered for the winning 1970 FA Cup and 1971 Cup Winners’ Cup runs.
I have always had a great deal of time for Sanjay Kumar and his team behind the excellent Asian GIS magazine, GIS Development, and was very happy to contribute an article for their embedded GIS issue. I don’t think GIS Development and the geospatial activities taking place in Asia, and in India and the Middle …
Adena at the All Points Blog points out that Jack Dangermond who visited us at the OS a couple of weeks ago was impressed!! Thank you Jack, from you a real compliment !!
Jo at Mapping hacks comments on an email sent by Openstreetmap (OSM) founder Steve Coast on its future. I have blogged about OSM before and am very supportive of the idea, however Steve makes the point that others in the UK are concerned to support the initiative personally, because of their relationships with the Ordnance …
My earlier post on “paper mapping” and web services coincided with the OS Options conference which took place at the OS head office in Southampton today. In many ways the Options network represents the future of printed maps, it is a network of organisations which access an OS web application (developed using ArcIMS) which allows …
Jeff at Vector One writes about the impact that the increased use of web services may have on printing. As he points out while such services make complex business process more accessible to users – I would add both professional and the hackers; there is still a need communicate spatial information and this will result …
Many of you may know of my fascination of all things aeronautic, so just move on if you are not interested… If you are well, just turn up the volume on your computer and enjoy the video below. You will need Quicktime and a room without children listening…
Wired adds to the debate over the threat to civil liberties from web mapping sites like google and microsoft local. As seems to have been the case with much of the recent reporting, the issue is not so much with mapping, but the use of detailed imagery. One of the concerns expressed is the apparent …
Took the opportunity this weekend to upgrade the blog software I use to WordPress 2.0, mainly to use the comment and trackback spam tools. At the same time I updated the header image to use my icon I acquired from a great outfit called dv-graphics, well worth taking a look at! Written and submitted from …
David Galbraith has spotted the arrival of blue pin markers on google local maps representing sponsored hotel locations, as well as the usual red ones. This was always going to happen, all that mapping data from Teleatlas, Digitalglobe, Navteq etc costs money…I predicted this back in June of last year, and to their credit Google …
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