Found this on the Google Earth Blog by Frank Taylor reporting on the Where 2.0 Conference last month: Ordinance Survey – the last talk from Ian Holt was – intriguingly amusing. The last organization I expected here was Ordinance Survey from the UK. They have been universally panned by most of the Where 2.0 generation of geospatial technologists. The primary reason being that OS refuses to let anyone use their mapping data without their collecting […]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
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Discussions have been running a poll to determine who is the number 2 provider of GIS (ESRI being the number 1) Of course the poll is only a bit of fun and the sample is hardly representative but interestingly as the poll has run the trends have changed. At the beginning of the week Bentley were in number 2 slot by mid week MapInfo had risen to within a couple of votes of taking second […]
Have you ever wondered why there are people who are willing to go to such great lengths to try to sell you imitation Rolex watches, Viagra, Cialis or pirated software? What is it about you that makes scantily clad young women from eastern Europe approach you because they are so lonely and they just picked you? And how come so many people working for the banks in Nigeria seem to need your help to free […]
Directions has an interesting interview with Susan Marlow of Smart Data Strategies about Parcel Datasets, something akin to a cadastre in the US. Quite a contrast to the sanity prevailing in Northern Ireland or even the fragmented and somewhat fractious affairs here in England
Last week,12 of us spent a couple of days wading through nearly 100 good to great submissions for the AGI GeoCommunity 08. Of course there were a couple of papers that got a “you have to be joking” and a couple that no one could understand (and they were in English) but the vast majority were of a very high standard. Selection is a chaotic process – we wanted the best papers and we wanted […]