The Telegraph newspaper has a good story suggesting traditional map reading is a dying skill due to the increasing use of web mapping and sat navs. I was impressed with how well researched it was.
I spend a lot of time walking in the mountains and still feel that paper maps and magnetic compass [...]
The BBC news site has the story “Britain’s happiest places mapped ” today. An interesting story, but where is the map??? I just can’t believe in this age of easy web mapping there is no map…
Taiwan’s local search and map services “Live Pages” has just been launched:
http://www.livepages.com.tw
In my mind this is still the big challenge for all web mapping: providing mapping, geocoding and routing that has been properly localised for local markets (rather than just providing a generalised Western centric view of the word). If we do everything in [...]
Juts found this video of Sean Phelan talking about how he started Multimap, grew it and eventually sold to Microsoft. Interesting stuff, especially on surviving the dot-com crash and the reasons for the sale. I love Sean’s phrase that Multimap (in the context Google and Microsoft) was a mouse “running around two elephants fighting”.
Microsoft Surface is a new way of interacting with digital content via a tabletop display on which you use gestures and touch to interact.
This video shows how cool this can be with maps! After about 3 mins it shows Surface in action with Virtual Earth
I think this new kind of interactive environment is what [...]
I have had some fun taking a few Photosynths in London and wanted to follow Chris Pendleton’s approach to putting them on a map. However, I decided to use the Multimap API…
Here is my map of Photosynths. The great advantage of the Multimap API for this is that I can use grid decluttering, which is [...]
Photosynth is my favourite technology at the moment and I am really excited to see that it is now live for all! See http://photosynth.net/Default.aspx
More info is here.
We’re pleased to announce the first full release of Photosynth, available now at photosynth.com. Photosynth takes a collection of regular photographs and reconstructs the scene or object in [...]
I have been pondering Martin Daly’s post on the cloud and GIS:
Is The Cloud?
Not new, just the same as The Grid.
Exactly what GIS has been waiting for all along.
Neither of the above.
I’m tending towards 3; 1 and 2 being more-or-less mutually exclusive.
I’m tending towards 2 (Exactly what GIS has been waiting for all along.) [...]
The AGI 2008 event will be on 24-5th September in Stratford-upon-Avon (UK). I have just realised that the 1st AGI event in 1997 (when it used to be in the NEC). Now I’m feeling old
I really recommend this event, it grew out of the GIS industry, but has been constantly reinventing itself [...]
I found this story interesting. Flickr is now using Open Street Map data in areas where there own Yahoo maps are poor. An interesting and sensible approach. Will Yahoo Maps follow suit?
More from Flickr here.
