The Call for Papers for GeoCommunity closes on Friday. We already have a record number of submissions for this stage in the process and are expecting the usual panic over the next couple of days. Given the long weekend I am sure we will be OK with papers that are in the inbox by start of business on Tuesday. If you are wrestling with a brilliant idea for a paper or workshop and you “just […]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
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There are now over 100 people in the GeoCommunity Group on LinkedIn with some interesting discussions under way. If you are a member of LinkedIn do join us and please invite those of your connections who you think might be interested
Chris Osborne and I are very chuffed that we have enticed Andrew Turner who is known by some as the “Godfather” (Chris’s) or one of the “Founding Fathers” (mine) of neogeography to be a plenary speaker at GeoCommunity this year. Andrew Turner is the CTO of FortiusOne, the company behind GeoCommons and the author of O’Reilly’s “Introduction to Neogeography” and “Trends in Where2.0” You can read the full announcement here. Hopefully Andrew will also be […]
Well the budget was a predictably dull affair (unless you earn more than £150k) with little surprise even the slight fudge on Ordnance Survey status. There we were expecting an announcement about the future status of the Trading Fund and instead there will be a strategy released today according to the OS web site : “A new Strategy for Ordnance Survey has been developed and will be published for comment and feedback on Thursday 23 […]
Ever wondered what use Street View might be put to? I stumbled upon the intergation of Street View with driving directions in Google Maps today (no doubt someone will tell me this has been about for ages or at least since the launch of Street View). Alongside each stage of the route directions a camera icon is displayed, clicking on it brings up a split screen with a Street View image and a direction graphic […]
Some people have said that FA Cup semifinals should not be played at Wembley. Traditionally the semis have been played at large neutral grounds. Well what makes more sense then, a team from north London and a team from west London playing the semi in north west London or should we all troop up the motorway to Birmingham or Sheffield? Shame if you come from Liverpool or Manchester but isn’t it always. Posted with LifeCast
Not even going to attempt to link this to geography, just love this pic Oh and in case you had forgotten it is now only 5 days to the budget so here is a prediction. The angel will be in the detail.
Joe Francica has an interesting peice on Directions exploring his categorisation of the geospatial marketplace, the Geospatial Quadrant. In this categorisation he defines 4 axes, Products, Systems Integration, Solutions and Data Services. I think there is a flaw in the analysis in that it places Product and Solutions at opposite ends of the spectrum whilst my experience of the major product vendors is that they are very active in promoting and delivering solutions based upon […]
Listening to the news headlines on Friday morning I caught an item about villagers in somewhere called Broughton (apparently near Milton Keynes, which I would not have known without help from radio and press) surrounding a Google Street View car trying to photograph their sleepy hamlet. Tempers got warmed to the point that the police had to intervene. Surely G20 would have been a better focus for protest than GSV, but Street View and privacy […]
That’s Open Source not the national mapping agency. Listening to all the comment about whether the G20 will help to pull us out of recession it is apparent that at some time in the future there will be a big bill to pay off (not that there is any alternative at the moment). In the UK there will have to be a squeeze on public sector expenditure post election. That could provide a further incentive […]
Thanks to Alberto Nardelli and the team at Tweetminster for the lovely Tweetometer that is now on GIScussions. The Tweetometer compares the volume of tweets in a real time feed. Click on the Go button to refresh. For the next few days I’ll leave it on Open Street Map and Ordnance Survey. Send ideas for other comparisons via comments or get your own version here 21 days to budget and counting …