Last night I attended the CloudMade API launch event in London. CloudMade is a company providing professional services and products on top of Open Street Map. I really enjoyed the event. What impressed me most was the shear professionalism of it, they had obviously spent a lot of time think planning and rehearsing. This [...]
On Wednesday 4th February I presented with Mark Lewin and Annie Hawkins in an ESRI(UK) webinar on using ArcGIS with Virtual Earth. We covered the benefits of this integration as well as details on how to get started with it.
You can watch a recording of the webinar here. (You need to crank up the [...]
Microsoft Surface and the Falcon Eye application were used at the recent Super Bowl to manage security at the massive event. Tampa Incident Commander used Surface to manage, oversee, and assign actions to his ground force (even for contacting them direct from surface via the radio network).
This great implementation of Microsoft Surface and mapping software [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
