So now everyone knows making a map of our little planet to make available to users of mobile devices everywhere that is both accurate, up-to-date and detailed is hard. And with the benefit of hindsight and industry expertise we can smile knowledgeably at the mainstream tech press falling over themselves debating and theorising over Apple …
Last week I had the pleasure of delivering a Keynote at the 4th Digital Earth Summit in Wellington, New Zealand. This was a wonderful experience in a number of ways, firstly Wellington really is the coolest little capital on the planet, secondly as always I meet a great bunch of people including some budding entrepreneurs …
So just how bad is NBC’s coverage of the Olympics.. I spent a few days last week in the US so I got the opportunity to actually experience it. Well compared to the BBC, it was never going to win any prizes, but actually is not so bad once you get over the bizarre time …
No one would have believed in the first years of the twenty first century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than mans… H.G. Wells had it wrong, the invasion of Mars by robots from earth ! Good Luck NASA, JPL and Curiosity the most ambitious landing since Apollo 11, …
Last week, before the network “Omni-shambles” that seemed to impact almost everyone on O2 in the past few days, I moved some of my mobile accounts from O2 to geek poster boy network GiffGaff. When I say move of course I am well aware that GiffGaff is still actually O2, it’s an internal MVNO – Mobile Virtual …
Well that’s at least the way it’s gets reported… Last week I was invited to speak on visualisation and “Big Data” at the Aspen Ideas Festival, and was interviewed by the “tech tonic” team from Reuters TV on the current state of maps online. Here is the interview.. On the subject of visualisation, my main …
Yesterday I made a presentation at the 13th GSDI Conference in Quebec (thanks to Geoff for his commentary), it was only a flying visit but I left in a more positive frame of mind that I expected. The high level message of my presentation was, we need to think more about the I in SDI e.g. infrastructure, …
Once upon a time I was a young teaching assistant teaching Aerial Photography Interpretation, and one of the aspects that I found difficult to demonstrate was Parallax, the displacement of high features such as towers in photographs. You will see this today when looking at some of the images in Google Earth which have not been corrected to remove the …
After successful events in the US two Google Geo Teachers Institutes are to be held on June 13 and 14 in Dublin, and June 20 and 21, 2012 in London. Both events will be held at the local Google office. The two-day events are free and designed to help teachers get the most from Google’s geography-related products and …
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The retro computing meme continues to gain momentum, just because you are restricted to 8bit computing, there is no reason you should miss out on using Google Maps, so today a new tile set designed for use by the Nintendo Entertainment System has been released. Happy Memories ? I was more of a Sinclair Spectrum man …
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