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Addressing Monopoly
Last week the long awaited announcements on a National Addressing Gazetteer called GeoPlace arrived from Ordnance Survey, the Local Government Group (I thought it was Association), National Land and...
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We shall have a PDC
Today Francis Maude announced that the government will be forming the much trailored Public Data Corporation or PDC. Free and Open data could be on its way thank to PDC. Image from...
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New layers for old
Reinventing the wheel. Thanks to conskeptical http://www.flickr.com/photos/conskeptical/ Maybe it’s an age thing or a touch of deja vue but a blog post from my friend Andrew Turner (hope he is still a...
View ArticleA brief history of web mapping
When I was asked to give a lecture in the GI Frontiers series at Nottingham University I thought it would be easy to pull something together quite quickly, so I asked what would you like me to cover...
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There’s dark stuff behind that web page
Thanks to bonkiss http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonkiss/ There has been quite a lot of fuss over the last week about the discovery that Apple apparently store a wadge of location data on your iPhone...
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Emperor’s new clothes, arab springs and #notw vs the people and open stuff
Way to go Egypt! Thanks to cactusbones http://www.flickr.com/photos/cactusbones/ So what’s that title about? A summer season post, stretching metaphors and rambling a bit. It occurs to me that there...
View ArticlePDC – is anything happening?
A couple of questions in the House of Commons yesterday (surprising that there is time for any government business other than #notw). Thanks to They Work For You we know that Francis Maude and Ed Davey...
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GeoCommunity 2011 – 2 more days of Love, Peace and Maps, Pt 1
So another GeoCommunity has been and gone, the format has evolved, the new venue at Nottingham is a big improvement and I have to admit to a slight sense of paternal pride that successive conference...
View ArticleBritain will be #Open for geoconferencing in 2013
In case you hadn’t heard a crowd of geogeeks have climbed mountains, written proposals, garnered support, tweeted their hearts out, started a pledge, created campaigning web sites and convinced the...
View ArticleA video summary of my recent Giscussions via #InnovateIsrael
I met Yotam, the founder of wibbitz.com at the Innovate Israel event, he was virtually the only person not wearing a suit at a tech conference. His company offers a solution for automatically...
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