data
Mark Wilson, summing up his thoughts [http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/2012/07/the-annotated-world-the-future-of-geospatial-technology-edparsons-at-digitalsurrey.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+marksweblog+%28markwilson.it%29] on last week’s Digital Surrey Google Maps talk [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/07/digital_surry_
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/04/ian.jpg] Ian Holt [https://twitter.com/#!/IanHolt], senior developer programme manager at Ordnance Survey [http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/] Two years ago the OS was asked to release mapping data as open data for the first time. They
books
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/02/mapmarketing.jpg] More accurate than the internet!Broad generalisations FTW!
Snow has come to London: Those of you on Twitter may be seeing tweets like this in your stream:> #uksnow SM2 4/10What the heck’s that all about? Simple. It’s a crowd-sourced method of tracking snow levels across the country that came into its own [back in
events
I’m not long back from the mashup* event in London about location [http://www.mashupevent.com/events/mashup-19-june/programme]. I’ll probably blog more about it in the morning when I’m not so tired, but here are a couple of initial thoughts: Mapping information to geographical locations really,
flickr
Yahoo’s purchase of Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/], the excellent photo hosting/community site, is starting to generate some interesting things. Finally. Flickr’s been integrated with Yahoo Maps [http://maps.yahoo.com/] to allow you to “geotag” your photos – add information about where the pic was taken to
