The IGGI web site includes this announcement about the award of the Pan Government Agreement. OS AddressLayer 2 has been included as part of the agreement. Does that mean that Central Government will not be using NLPG or do they have a seperate agreement for that and intend to use both?
Monthly Archives: January 2009
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The GeoCommunity team will be twittering here If you are interested in the plans for this year’s conference and want the latest news and thoughts of the team then why not follow us. It is also another channel to feed us your ideas on themes, speakers, entertainment or anything else to do with the conference.
The mashers have been busy over the last week. Here are a selection of links to maps of the Gaza conflict. Al Jazeera offers an excellent mashup based on VE which links to Al Jazeera reports Aid Worker Daily compares the detail avalable in GM, VE and OSM and declares GM the winner. Interestingly the maps that Google are using are provided by an Israeli company GISrael who claim GISrael is the largest civilian cartographic department […]
Vector 1 reports the new A Level teaching resource jointly released by the Geographical Association and ESRI UK. Produced by the GA (Geographical Assoc) in collaboration with ESRI (UK), the book is a complete guide to the theory and application of GIS, with five practival exercises described step-by-step. It includes ESRI ArcView 9.2 software with a 12-month license, plus DVD of map data for England. Just think thousands of A level students learning to use GIS with […]
Following on from Pitney Bowes announcement in December of 128 layoffs (8%) come announcements in the last couple of days from Intergraph of 200 job losses (5%) and 750 at Autodesk (10%). But all is not gloomy in the geospatial camp, the ESRI US site lists over 170 current vacancies! I guess they have a different view on how the next year is going to pan out (or they need to update their web site […]
An article on TechCrunch entitled “Why do we still let webmail services get away with deleting our data?” suggests that with storage so cheap web mail services should not delete mail accounts and stored mail if the accounts became inactive. Recently there was also an outburst of concern when Google temporarily “lost” MyMaps data. The article goes on to consider the future adoption of free cloud based services Now that more services are moving to […]
When I got back from a holiday in Israel this summer I was puzzled that there were no street level maps available on Google. I mailed TeleAtlas and Navteq to ask why they did not have coverage of Israel (starting to think it might be a political thing) only to discover that the primary driver for mapping was demand from PND manufacturers, maybe Israeli drivers don’t need sat nav. Not sure when things changed but […]
The crunch/recession/crash whatever will impact all businesses in 2009. There is nothing special about geobusinesses except that there is perhaps a higher level of unsustainability in some business models than in the wider economy (financial services excluded). For years we have searched for the killer applications of geotechnology the “must haves” rather than the “nice to haves” or “usefuls”, I can recall a CEO telling a user conference less than 2 years ago that the […]