Last week Google Maps Mania had a post about a soon to be launched feature in the Google Maps API. Google have announced that in a few weeks time they will be adding new functionality to the Google Maps API v2 that allows Google to log the location and content of the markers and/or infowindows that are displayed in Google Maps mashups. Google then plans to use the gathered data created by Google Maps developers […]
Monthly Archives: November 2009
5 posts
I was chatting with Mike Sanderson of 1spatial last week at Where2.0Now about the potential of geo-rules in his company’s Radius Studio. Somehow (can’t think how) the conversation managed to get to football and he said that it would be easy to write the offside rules into Radius if only you knew where the players are at any point in time (and where the ball was). Ubisense‘s real time location tracking would seem to be […]
Yes it was a draw at AGI Northern’s Where2.0Now event in Harrogate on Tuesday! In a great day of geoweb presentations and conversation the audience were treated to 3 pictures of Vermeer’s “The Geographer” as a token paleo and surprisingly only 3 pictures of an iPhone breaking the apparent trend that every presentation has to have a picture of an iPhone and a reference to OSM. The attendees seemed to enjoy the event although there […]
Just as the northern geoweb folk gather in Harrogate for AGI’s Where2.0Now, comes news/rumours of layoffs at Microsoft and Cloudmade’s London based engineering teams. For Microsoft this is probably an inevitable part of the gradual absorption (aka disappearance) of the Multimap acquisition although it may not feel like that for any of the remaining long term mutimappers. For Cloudmade the layoffs follow the departure of a CEO and previous layoffs of community ambassadors – it […]
Well it’s a matter of place really – which side of Norf London do you come from? Red or White? One can apply all sorts of socio-economic and geo-demographic analysis to the regional distribution of excessive proclaimers (sometimes referred to as Keanites or Redknappers) within the northern reaches of London but it does appear this morning that they all seem to be concentrated around N17. Whilst the quietly confident and sometimes gloating will be found […]