As I metioned a week or so ago the BBC called as they were putting together a piece on Google Earth, well this morning Rory Cellan Jones produced this report (realplayer) for the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, the “must listen” breakfast show for the great and the good in the UK. No great insights.. …
Inventor of podcasting Adam Curry has discovered the google maps api, in his latest Daily Source Code podcast he talks extensively on the subject and is clearly very excitied about the possibilites of using it along with GPS to produce “indie” mapping data and services. There seems to be a mainstream hype developing around google …
As I was in “the valley” today, on my way home from visiting Fujitsu in Sunnyvale I thought I would drop into the Apple campus in nearby Cupertino. I am please to confirm it still exisits despite Microsoft not having it on the imagery layer in MSN virtual earth. I have the t-shirt to prove …
I have left San Diego, and flown up to San Jose to meet up with the people at Fujitsu Siemens the people who build the tablet PC’s the OS field staff use. As always, enjoyed the ESRI conference, the whole web services message seems to be coming together now and it was good to see …
Had a couple of meetings today, then met up with some old Autodesk friends and wnet along to a few presentations yesterday. I was taken aback by the amount of new stuff especially in ArcSDE and database support in 9.2. As i said yesterday I was surprised how little emphasis was given in the plenary …
I traveling out to San Diego on Saturday to attend the ESRI UC this year flying via phoenix – remember the great days when BA had a direct 777 service !! If you visiting just one GIS show in a year this would be it, although clearly focused on everything Arc it is the place …
I and the OS are great supporters of GML, the Geographic Markup Language, an open standard for XML encoding of geodata. OS MasterMap was the first widely available product to make use of GML and over the past couple of years the industry has developed solutions to fully exploit it. We knew when we started …
I was part of a panel today at the The Mobility Summit an event organised by the European Technology Forum and Cnet Networks. The panel discussed the emergence of more precisely the lack of emergence of Location Based Services as a section of the mobile data industry. The point I argued, as I have before, …
Following today’s bombings,commenting on Geodata and technology does not seem too relevant today. However these words spoken over 60 years ago seem just right today. “These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler’s invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers of civilians, and women and children, that he …
Spent the weekend flicking through a very cool new book on GI and GIS technologies, “Mapping Hacks” a product of the people behind the mapping hacks website. This is great stuff, it bites off all the basic principles of GeoData in small chunks, from the perspective of someone actually trying to build practical solutions. This …
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