Tom Taylor, Gavin Bell and I made a newspaper but more on that in a moment. Considering everyone who reads this blog would have seen this already, I could just point you at the Newspaper Club’s own blog post: Data.gov.uk Newspaper, or this post over here: Postcode Paper: What you can do with the right [...]
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I’ve just spent the last few days in London rushing around the place, not really having a clue where I was going. Meaning that most of the time I’d rather jump into a cab than take the tube. Well that and the heat, the Underground is hot, taxis have Air Conditioning. Also I generally don’t [...]
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Last night I was mulling over the new iPhone and 3.0OS stuff, and then Brady goes and covers most of it anyway: What the iPhone 3GS and 3.0 OS Means for Geo Devs. Really the two elements I was most interested in were the Compass for pretty much the reasons Brady (damn him!) states … [...]
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Here’s the breakdown, first I’ll mention augmented reality, then I’ll ramble a bit, then I’ll make a point, or not, depending on how the rambling has gone. First the Augmented Reality part. I’ve downloaded RjDj onto my iPhone, it’s basically two things 1) Awesome, 2) Sound processing software that samples your environmental soundscape and plays [...]
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When I first saw that Zazzle were doing shoes my first thought was, obviously, ‘Quick, stick a map on them’ … And since then I’ve been doing nothing but messing around with the designer and making map shoes of San Francisco (just north of Golden Gate Bridge) Sadly they only do Womens and Kids shoes [...]
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Radar points out that you can now get a ‘Lite’ (my word not theirs) version of Google Earth as a plug-in for IE and FF on Windows only (boo!), more information over here. Which is, you know great. More-so this is the really exciting part, for me anyway … Google Earth, as an application is [...]
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