At last the Location Strategy for the UK has been published here. It was started in 2005. I have not waded through it all yet….
An initial skim suggests the main recommendation is more integration of public sector data through common references (DNF is mentioned). There do not seem to be any radical “Free [...]
I had a fantastic snowy walk today…
I have been taking some time to explore there latest spatial thinking and innovations by Yahoo!. Setting aside some of the current business politics, I think Yahoo! are doing some of the most interesting stuff at the moment.
It started a while ago with their Where On Earth (WOE) IDs. Basically these provide a hierarchical [...]
I was chatting to John McKerrell yesterday and he was showing me his new creation http://mapof.it/. This is one of the coolest thinks I have seen recently and like all really cool things it is really simple.
Basically http://mapof.it/ allows you to build URLs that take you to a specific location (or route) on a [...]
Martin Daly has done a review of embedded map tools and Multimap comes out top. More details on how to use this are here.
Richard Brundritt at Infusion Development has started a great new technical blog on using Virtual Earth. There are some great technical resources here, for example this post on using custom icons with the new Virtual Earth Imagery Web Service.
Recently I met Brian and Neil form Earthware and they have been telling me about some of the new stuff they are working on. They have been developing some really cool stuff with the VE API. One of these as an integration of street photos (taken from the back of a motorbike apparently!) into their [...]
I was speaking to Mark Brown at TechEd this morning. After he had berated me for blogging this photo, we spoke about the best technical resources for VE. A while ago I blogged on this here.
Now Mark has been working on dev.live.com/virtualearth/ as a one stop shop for technical links for VE developers. This [...]
This week I am at TechEd EMEA 2008 Developers on the Virtual Earth “Ask the Expert Stand”. TechEd is a Microsoft event aimed at developers (and is not ashamed at being very technical!)
It has been great talking to loads of mainstream developers who are looking to include a mapping as part of their applications. [...]
