Monthly Archives: October 2009

Google announced the beta of their mobile navigation application yesterday. It looks like a pretty fully featured navigation application, with voice recognition, plain English search, satellite imagery, streetview, POI’s on your route, live traffic feeds and of course no need to download map upgrades. Downsides – what happens when you lose internet connectivity which seems to happen every few minutes with my mobile service (perhaps service is a misnomer) and a few questions at this […]

At last week’s AGI Foresight workshop Muki Haklay made the provocative statement that he expected Masters programs in pure GI to disappear within a few years and for GI to increasingly be taught as modules within other programs. Quite a few of the participants including several academics seemed to agree with him. When I tweeted this it prompted some rebuttal from my friends at Kingston pointing out that being able to drive a GIS package […]

Simon and Tony at mashupevents ran an evening of debate and discussion on Augmented Reality on Thursday night. I hadn’t planned to go to this evening because I didn’t think I would find much of interest but a couple of days ago I helped to facilitate an AGI Forsesight study (more on that soon) in which the subject of AR came up and I was struck by the opportunity for AR to supercede cartographic displays […]

Nothing makes me happier than being able to link geography and football. As a Londoner I am stunned by the number of Liverpool and Man U fans who live in London (and they didn’t all move here). So if there is a football mad hacker out there maybe you can help me to put together www.wheredoallthemanufanslive.com (good URL?). You can make suggestions or offer help at the GeoVation Challenge Any guesses which team has the […]

So we are off and running with the GeoVation Awards Program. If you have an idea or know someone who has an idea that has been simmering for a while or was drawn on a beermat or the back of a cigarette packet then now is the time to enter the GAP and you could win an award of up to £10,000 You can find details of how to participate at Mind the Gap – […]

Great evening at BCS this week listening Tim Fendley talk about the Legible London project. On behalf of TfL his team have been looking at how to coordinate the signs and directions available to pedestrians to encourage people to walk around London rather than use the underground because they don’t know the way. In London we have all sorts of people putting up signs which offer conflicting and confusing advice to pedestrians. They have done […]

A week and a bit has flown by since the end GeoCommunity and I have gone through post conference elation, slump and a stinking cold (possibly related). Jo Cook, Ed Parsons, Gary Gale, Martin Daly and others have written some great summaries of the event and their impressions of it – you can also view masses of content from and about the conference at www.geocommunitylive.com (we will need to work out what we do with […]