If you missed Mark Bishop’s presentation at the AGI GeoCommunity 08 there is another chance to hear him talking at the BCS Geospatial SIG event in London on Tuesday evening.
Monthly Archives: October 2008
10 posts
Firstly my appreciation to those of my friends and colleagues who did not suffer from the mistaken belief that I might not be aware of the score in last night’s North London Derby (pah!) and offer to inform me of the score along with their own witty commentary. Sadly I have to admit that we deserved our fate. Not on a footballing level but from a fans point of view. Once we had recovered from […]
In his keynote to the ESRI EMEA UC Jack Dangermond slipped in an announcement about ArcGIS Online Sevices (I gathered that this was not a completely new announcement but it seemed to be news to the European delegates). ESRI will host your data (cadastre, imagery or other corporate data) for free on the basis that you allow your data to be used for free by others within the community. Now it is not a completely […]
We have been waiting for a long time for the UK Location Strategy to be published. The latest news is that it will “almost certainly” be published during November, discussion on cross government funding for the initial 42 month program is ongoing although about 65% has apparently been committed.
One of the perks of not being associated with a mainstream vendor is that I have the opportunity to attend events like the ESRI EMEA Conference. For much of my time in this industry I have been impressed by the relationship that ESRI has built with its users, many of whom were always almost religious in their devotion to the company. Very frustrating for a competitor. I like to think that in the time that […]
Andy Thompson and I were scheduled to give a presentation today to the Society for Location Analysis at their Mapping Futures. Unfortunately our slot was cancelled at the last minute (sponsors/agenda time table/stuff) so we never gave the presentation but we learnt a lot preparing and discussing the topic. Online shopping is growing much faster than the overall UK retail market so presumably is capturing market share from traditional bricks and mortar retailers. Does this […]
Yesterday I sat in on a talk by Muki Haklay of UCL entitled “What’s so new in Neogeography?” Muki talked about levels of hacking within the world of neogeo from deep technical hacking (changing GIS application code) through, shallow technical hacking (his words not mine) which I think are mashups to use hacking and meaning hacking which involve using the tools and information in different ways to those originally intended. The bit that caught my interest was […]
My son was travelling through his gap year and visited Galapagos in April . A couple of weeks ago a somewhat battered postcard arrived through the letter box, hand delivered by two other travellers. My son had written “Mum & Dad, if you get this I will tell you the story. If not, then never mind. Love Leo” attached to the card was a note from the post ladies “Found this in Post Office Bay […]
Directions or a prediction?
Alan Wilks is not a GI person but he is ops Director of the AGI and he was a memeber of the conference team and a participant at the GeoCommunity conference. In his blog he said I am beginning to think that the problem is not the concepts themselves, but the language used by geographers to explain the concepts. This language is evolving as a tool for geographer to speak to geographer. But as geographers […]