I’m still struggling to see the benefit of the snow leopard upgrade (apart from a pretty wallpaper of a snow leopard).
But where it wins hands-down is with the ability to run multiple operating systems (using something like Parallels) which is something every geek needs. This reason alone has won me over…
Posted
on September 23, 2009, 11:13 am,
by admin,
under GIS.
This is a record for me, here is a copy of my presentation before I have given it…
I am using prezi.com for the 1st time, so it is a bit of an adventure… One issue I have found is you cannot change the tittle (hence “Cloud 1 Text” arghhhh).
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on September 22, 2009, 9:51 am,
by admin,
under GIS, blogging.
I am about to hop on the slow train to Stratford-upon-Avon for the AGI Geocommunity event.
Thanks to John Fagan and Steven Feldman, this year there will be a live event blog on www.geocommunitylive.com which will be aggregating RSS feeds from other bloggers at the event. It should be fun!
I have decided to move on from Microsoft and Infusion. I have had a great time with Multimap, then Microsoft (and Infusion), over the last two years and learned a load, but it is time to make a geographical and company move.
I am moving my base to Innsbruck (to spend more time in the mountains and learn some decent German), setting up a consultancy and I will be working with Axon Active among others (who are based in Luzern)
So who are Axon Active?
Axon Active provide ‘Decision Support’ services for organisations. They do this by supplying detailed socioeconomic data, undertaking process design and providing sophisticated modelling/analysis. This includes developing applications that allow organisations to monitor their business and model scenarios themselves. All of this is tied together by looking at problems from a spatial viewpoint (they have a long history in the GI business). In a sense it is ‘real’ GIS…
More blogging is to follow on what this means in reality and I will be talking about some examples at AGI Geocommunity and the AGI North event.
I am working with Axon Active on International Technical Sales, so I will still have plenty of travel.
Oh, and Axon Active have have a cool HQ in a ‘castle’ overlooking Luzern:
This is a very cool, it displays Open Street Map maps within the Bing Maps Silverlight API. A super slick silverlighty navigation experience! You can set the opacity so you can see the bing maps and aerial underneath. You can even rotate on the X, Y and Z axis!
More info here on this and the interesting concept of “Stacking Maps”.
The idea of being able to fully control and ‘edit’ your pictures as you take them is very attractive. Perhaps a whole community of ‘plug-ins’ could develop on top of this open source device? Imagine all kinds of ‘plug-ins’ to help you take panoramas. Or a photosynth ‘plug-in’ that prompts the photographer on how/where to take pictures to achieve the best synthyness.
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on September 4, 2009, 9:36 am,
by admin,
under Uncategorized.
The AGI GeoCommunity ‘09 event is fast approaching (23/24th Sept in Stratford-upon-Avon). The event is the reinvigorated leading UK GIS event (which even has a showing of neo-geographers too). It looks like it is almost sold out, so book quickly if you want to go!
Posted
on August 2, 2009, 12:34 pm,
by admin,
under Web Mapping.
I am not quite sure what to say about this story here:
Search titan Google has been hit with a lawsuit in France with one Bottin Cartographes, a company offering multimedia maps, has filed a complaint with the Paris commercial court regarding the Google Maps service. According to Bottin Cartographes, Google is engaged in unfair business practices as it provides map services for free for a company’s internal use in exchange for the right to sell ads for that company
However Euro 500’000 seems like a very strange number to choose…
