A few people pointed out that in my resent post MapCruncher and the Stubaitalbahn my demo page did not work in IE8 beta 2. It does work in IE8, but you need to use compatibility mode. However I have discovered that many new IE8 users have not discovered compatibility mode yet! As I have not [...]
So I survived the 80s party last night and enjoyed some great conversations and debates on Day 2. As before here are some of the highlights for me…
Charles Kennelly – ESRI
Charles did a bit of a defence of ‘traditional’ GIS. Although he stated that “Understanding mapping is at a historic high” he made the [...]
Just released is version 6.2 of Virtual Earth Map Control and the new Virtual Earth Web Services. I will be blogging on the new features in detail over the coming weeks. There is some really exciting stuff.
Meanwhile heaps more information is on Chris Pendleton’s blog
I am a the AGI 2008 Conference in Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK. This is the annual conference for the UK based Association for Geographic Information.
These have been some highlights for me today…
Sean Phelan – Multimap founder
Sean did a great presentation on the history of Multimap and its sale to Microsoft. The interesting piece of advice was “Understand [...]
One of the common problems with Web Mapping applications is that what end users regard as a place often does not match the ‘official’ place names in the commercial gazetteer data that web mapping services depend on for geocoding. For example in London everyone knows where “Soho“, “Bloomsbury” and “Big Ben” are, but in [...]
Tom Taylor has done a great post of “Eight ways to orientate yourself anywhere” . There are some unusual ones there. I love the satellite dish one, I had never really thought about that.
What’s this?
Answer is here (one of my favourite blogs).
John Mckerrell (an ex-Multimaper and creator of the Multimap API) has just released his MapMe.at application. This is really cool, it allows you to track your current location (and track where you have been) for geo-social networking. It uses 8 ways of tracking your location (including Fire Eagle). More info on how it all [...]
I find it interesting the way web Mapping applications are now moving further and further into the world of GIS… People now come to expect a rich user experience form one of the web mapping services, but are pushing the boundaries with the analysis.
InLET (The Internet-based Loss Estimation Tool) is a great example where you [...]
This blog post is an interesting evaluation of the support of different mapping applications on Chrome and IE8. Chrome issues with SVG and Silverlight (not surprisingly!)
