Did a short package with Dutch TV yesterday in Amsterdam talking about the differences between the maps of the great Dutch cartographers of the 17th Century and modern Google Maps. In some ways there are surprising similarities, both in effect are all about discovery, earlier discoveries of new lands to exploit have been replaced by …
I was able to make a flying visit to the State of the Map US conference yesterday in Washington DC. As usual it had the higher than average GIS conference energy levels, but it felt really different to previous events to me.. Firstly the conference was a step up in terms of the professionalism of …
We spend about 70% of our lives indoors, a real data capture challenge, as your need a very scalable solution – ProjectTango may be part of the solution.. Early days of course, but there is real potential with this approach, perhaps more than efforts focused on data standards which overlook how the data will be …
Love Maps Engine, a simple Flood risk map based on liberated Environment Agency data, a bit of QGIS hacking and spare half hour. https://mapsengine.google.com/06793588975440581048-09757940799309423091-4/mapview/?authuser=0 I should do this more often, brings back happy GIS memories #blog
So Happy 30th Birthday Macintosh, this video from the original launch event once again demonstrates Jobs extraordinary ability to demo a product. Although of course technically a huge step forward from the green screen personal computers of the time, the Mac was a commercial disaster leading to the infamous ousting of Jobs from Apple just a …
A much needed call to action from Alex Singleton, but I don't underestimate how hard this will be to achieve. There remains I'm afraid a cultural view within many Geography Departments against GIS let alone programming and the current generation of students entering higher education have no background in coding from school. It's a …
A nice article that lifts the lid on all the complexity we try to hid with tools like Google Earth.. and explains why the prime meridian at Greenwich is not the same on your iPhone !#blog What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move? | Critical Opalescence, Scientific American Blog Network A couple of …
It’s great to finally see this story told so well. It’s a truly uplifting demonstration of just what can happen when access to information changes peoples lives.. So for those days when you ask yourself if what you do in geo matters, just watch this video..
Another example of street view taking you to a place you are not likely to visit, CERN is the largest particle physics laboratory in the world and if you look carefully you might find a Higgs Boson ! #blog CERN – Street View This post has been reshared 4 times on Google+ View …
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