Daily Archives: July 18, 2008

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Cartograhy matters

The AGI and the British Cartographic Society have been running a series of events entitled Better Mapping. I guess that many of us working in the GI space do not give much thought to cartography. In other words – what the maps look like does not matter. I have often described what I did to people who did not understand GIS or software as being the mapping equivalent of making the CD player part of […]

The dangers of relying on your iPhone

Normally when I am going to a new address I will print out a map before leaving. I had to get to a seminar yesterday and had the address details stored in my online calendar which I thought I could access through my iPhone and then Google up a map when I came out of the tube station rather than printing. Unfortunately the wonder device was throwing a near windows like wobbly and could not […]