At the AGI Conference Angela Baker of ESRI spoke about the inclusion of GIS within the National Curriculum in our debate about GI Careers. She offered to share with the GeoCommunity some useful links to educational sites and true to her word she mailed me: Steven mentioned that he was going to put together some useful websites following the conference. My educations ones are: https://www.geographyteachingtoday.org.uk/ Action Plan for Geography https://www.rgs.org/HomePage.htm RGS https://www.geography.org.uk/ The GA https://edcommunity.esri.com/ […]
Monthly Archives: September 2007
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Sorry I just couldn’t resist it. To all those Chelsea fans who gave me stick over TH14 – cheer up guys 🙂 We could have a Russian oligarch before the season is over then the last laugh will be on you. But until then – Ho ho ho
“Go out and Build a GeoCommunity” – my closing words at this year’s AGI Conference. 500 people over two days attended 51 papers, workshops, keynotes, debates and hands on training sessions. Mike Hickey of Pitney Bowes and Ed Parsons of Google kicked off the first day giving their perspectives on the emergence of neo-geography. Eat, drink, learn and discuss sleep, network and party Geo. Great Party, hangovers, old friends, new friends. Ideas, business, fun and […]
For those of you who missed it or anyone not here, this was how I opened the conference (except for the ad libs) Good morning everyone. It is my great pleasure to welcome you to this the 19th AGI Conference. Looking around and seeing over 400 people here in this hall and knowing that nearly 500 delegates will be attending over the two days, I cannot hide a little bit of pride on behalf of […]
Day 1 proceedings are nearly over. A great program including brilliant keynotes from Ed Parsons and Mike Hickey in which we learnt about Neogeography, paleogeography and Location Intelligence. Loads of other presentations which I could not attend as i was judging in one of the rooms. And a fantastic debate at the end of the day (even if I did chair it and get well flamed by Mr Doyle)Apparently we do think that there is […]
We are just about there. I am packed and setting off for Stratford upon Avon tomorrow morning. no doubt there will be a few last minute details to attend to tomorrow afternoon. Then it will be time to start welcoming the early arrivals as they register tomorrow evening followed by the early networking and greeting of old friends. Must make sure I get a reasonably early night as I have to open the conference on […]
Would it work? Could we get 200 or even 300 delegates to a residential conference in beautiful Stratford on Avon? Would people miss the basement of Chelsea football Club? (You can guess my response to that one) With 420 delegates registered for the first day of the conference and over 400 for the second (there are a handful of passes left for Day 2) the answer is clearly that we have a willing and enthusiastic […]
Transliterate – verb (transliterated, transliterating) “to replace (the characters of a word, name, text, etc) with the nearest equivalent characters of another alphabet.” – Source Chambers Online I have just got back from a holiday in Tel Aviv. To my dismay I discovered that none of the big mapping portals (GYM etc) have any decent coverage for Israel. Initially, I thought that might be because of the lack of availability of street level data but […]