So many contrasts where to begin… but I have really fallen in love with India, despite the clear poverty visible on almost every street corner, the dynamism of this country is amazing. India is running an e-GOV programme which makes the efforts of the UK seem rather underwhelming, and although I think I still need …
This weekend I’m travelling to India to deliver a keynote presentation at Graticule the first International conference on positional technology and Location Intelligence to take place in India. Understandably perhaps the focus on these technologies has been in the west, however this is changing. India not only offers highly skilled engineers and scientists who are …
You had better not take your laptop… Like many of my fellow tech workers in London, I carry my powerbook plus other kit in a rucksack and following the events of 7/7 have joked about how we must appear to others. This is no longer a joking matter however and the extent to which the …
Yesterday, the OS ran the first terrafutures event, a one day workshop to try and bring together scientists of all types, sociologists and IT experts to look into the future and spot the trends in technology and society that will impact on the GI industry. Some of the key findings included the future pervasivness of …
I have just come across geoTorrent.org a website offering links to geodata sets hosted using the bit-torent peer to peer network protocol. The idea of distributing large geodata datasets as small chucks is quite appealing and I have no doubt that when open geodata becomes more mature – this will be the obvious mechanism of …
Back at the end of June, the O’Reilly media Where 2.0 conference took place in San Francisco and saw presentations from Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo amongst others on their perspective of the expanding mainstream GI market. The first audio recording from this conference is now available online at the ITConversations website. The Past and Future …
OK so I have surrived about 10 days without the internet, but the draw of the internet cafe was too much. So I find myself having a great cup of the best coffee portugal can provide while checking my email, and having a chat to a Aussie girl about the cricket. Amazing places internet cafes …
A sad reflection on that part of the British character that is so resistant to change… City of York council are called to account reports the BBC for using metric measurements on footpath markers. It seems that it is only the UK and the United States that continue to use miles and feet as measure …
Looks like I’m going to be having a busy September, following my vacation I’m back to talk at the Society of Cartographers Summer School in Cambridge and at a event we are holding at the OS called Terra future. The events although in many ways very different are both focusing in on the increasing use …
Tim Martin comments on the hype surrounding Google Earth, asking is google as much a hindrance as help to the GI industry? I think Tim is right to recognise some of the data quality issues apparent in both Google apps, but I think it is a mistake to see Google in any-ways trying to advance …
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