Viewers of BBC’s Top Gear, here is the “ghost” Spanish airport used…
Viewers of BBC's Top Gear, here is the "ghost" Spanish airport used as a test track.. Ciudad Real, Spain – Google Maps View this post on Google+
I’ve moved this blog Google+
Over the last few years I have posted here less and less, while I find myself posting much more on Google+ and Twitter. So as of today I’m moving my blog over to Google+. Follow me at +ed parsons to keep in touch.. I’ll see you there!
10 years ago today at 50,000 feet !
At just after 9:00 am on the 29th May 2003, I achieved a lifetime ambition and flew Concorde ! Concorde had six months of service remaining with British Airways so the rush was on for fellow Aviation geeks to organise the trip of a lifetime. The journey was perhaps the last occasion that I could describe as an example …
Inspire a moonshot not a blueprint ?
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to take part in the ImaGIne conference organised by the European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information in Dublin. The conference although not very well attended did contain both excellent presentations and perhaps unusually great discussions which really seemed to address some of the key challenges of using geospatial technology in Europe. A talk …
God Speed Nexus One…
A Nexus powered satellite to be launched today – fingers crossed, welcome to the age of the Maker Sat ? STRaND-1 (the Surrey Training, Research and Nanosatellite Demonstrator), is a shoe box sized satellite weighing just 4.3kg. It will launch into a 785km sun-synchronous orbit on ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from Sriharikota, India. STRaND-1 will also be the …
Congratulations to the GEO Research Award Winners
Congratulations to the successful recipients of the Google Winter Research Awards from the GI Science community. In this round six awards were made for proposals including Remote Sensing of volcanoes using UV imaging, Spatial Cognition, and VGI. Congratulations to; Andrew McGonigle, University of Sheffield Johannes Schoening, UCL/Hasselt University Evdokia Nikolova, Texas A&M Long Quan, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Cyrus …
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At last the OS app !
Welcome to the future… The future of the consumer business of Ordnance Survey (OS) that is.. Just in time the OS has launched an app for iOS, with Android in the pipeline, that demonstrates there is a future role of the agency in the post paper map age. For a number of years the OS has relied …
So does Open GovData allow SME’s to flourish?
Within the first few weeks of joining the Ordnance Survey 10 years or so ago I was shown a prototype map of the New Forest printed on silk, for reasons anyone who has read the “Innovators dilemma” will understand it was never turning into a product, and I still have the prototype in a drawer at home. …
Geo for Research and Higher Education Workshop
If you are going along to the AGU in San Francisco this year, I would recommend registering for this event which is being run by the Google Earth Outreach team. It’s free, but there are only 100 places. This is a “hands on” event so you need to bring your laptop and knowledge of Javascript/Google …
My presentation from PinPoint London..
The past, present and future of maps.. Written and submitted from home (51.425N, 0.331W)