Monthly Archives: March 2011

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Met goes funky and open

The Meteorological Office have come up with a real corker of a weather map with their Invent service about which they say Met Office Invent will showcase some of our future plans for presenting web-based weather forecasts, products and information. It will allow you to become involved in the formation of new weather and climate change products, services or forecasts. There are one heck of a lot of options for different data to be displayed, adjusting the time […]

A brief history of web mapping

When I was asked to give a lecture in the GI Frontiers series at Nottingham University I thought it would be easy to pull something together quite quickly, so I asked what would you like me to cover and Jeremy said “how about a history of web mapping?” No probs I thought. Well it turned out that this was a bigger task than I had anticipated but it was massively rewarding and I learnt a […]