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UK Geomarket worth £1.2bn – who knew?
There is money in them there maps. Thanks to seriykotik1970 http://www.flickr.com/photos/seriykotik/ How big is the UK geomarket? What does it comprise? A recent report by ConsultingWhere entitled “The...
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Why are we so keen to distrust Google (and Apple)?
Spies - thanks to Ocular Invasion http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocularinvasion/ This morning I woke up to a piece on Radio 4 mentioning a Daily Mail piece about Google and Apple putting spy planes in...
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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Waze to go
Making waves – thanks to keoshi I was looking forward to hearing Uri Levene, the CEO of Waze, talking about Redefining Social Networks and Crowd Sourcing at the Innovate Israel event this morning. Waze...
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And you thought the Address Wars were over?
Mad, no stupid. Thanks to Marius Roman http://www.flickr.com/photos/thelimateam/ A few days ago the Royal Mail published some information on their new Pinpoint positional accuracy programme...
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Get the eff out of FOSS4G
Free – thanks to Brad Stabler http://www.flickr.com/photos/bstabler/ This week I spent 2 days at the OSGeo UK Chapter event in Nottingham. OSGIS 2012 was a fun combination of workshops and...
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Do we claim too much for geo?
Last night was the warm up night for GeoCommunity with the first couple of hundred delegates arriving for an evening of impossible quizzes, engineering with spaghetti and marshmallows (see result...
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Steve Jobs wouldn’t have let this happen
Steve Jobs pic thanks to CogLogLab http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogloglab/ If they have a web connection in the afterlife Steve Jobs must be fuming about the gaffes in Apple Maps and thinking “This...
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A tale of 2 crowds at 2 conferences
No expense spared on graphic design at these unconferences An eventful week with both W3G “the unconference” and Everything Happens Somewhere (the National Land and Property Gazetteer Awards). W3G at...
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This is not a dead blog
Tumbleweed – thanks to http://www.flickr.com/photos/tkkate/ Contrary to what you might think looking at the frequency of posts for the last 6-8 months this is not a dead blog. I have been mega busy but...
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An avalanche of Openness will be on display in Maptember
It has been ages since I last sat down to write a post. That is because I have been massively busy working on client stuff, particularly with the great team at Astun, and chairing FOSS4G has been a lot...
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Opening up the cage
Opening the Cage – thanks to http://www.flickr.com/photos/genista/ My friend Ed Freyfogle of Lokku, Nestoria and #geomob fame and I, have been talking for a while about business opportunities around...
View ArticleFinding the cost of Open Data
Apologies for the oddly targeted adverts in the video above but that’s the cost of free. We don’t have an option to vote or even express opinions on individual items of government expenditure in the...
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How to amend PAF® licensing?
One suggestion for what to do with the PAF License – thanks to http://www.flickr.com/photos/nohodamon/ for this pic of Crushed Cars Royal Mail just launched a consultation on simplifying the PAF...
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Shock, horror – PAF goes open
Shock! Horror! thx to http://www.flickr.com/photos/forzagaribaldi/ Not really This spoof press release from Royal Mail appeared to day on the internetty thing. If only it was for real! I had nothing to...
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Are you up for Maptember?
It’s the beginning of Maptember, who could have imagined this cacophony of mapping events in the UK over 30 days? Ken Field suggests in his blog that there may be too many events competing for the same...
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What are you doing wasting your time with that little company?
A couple of months ago I was at an industry event in the UK with a colleague from Astun Technology (I’m a strategic adviser to the board at Astun and have been helping them to grow their business). We...
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The Purcell Street problem – maybe Google haven’t lost (yet)
Big beasts fighting over mapping territory – thanks to http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomson-safaris/ It’s odd how things come together sometimes. This morning I was reading Charles Arthur’s article on...
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Wrong, wrong, wrong or the Purcell Street Problem (cont)
Wrong way thx to http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaiban/ A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the Purcell Street Problem and why I disagreed with Charles Arthur’s assessment in his article “Apple maps: how...
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