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Neogeography

Over the summer I’ve been keeping a geographic journal of some of our recent adventures: The Minnesota project : our summer in Blooming Prairie CO to CA : our summer roadtrip It’s an amusing journalling project for me, but as an exercise in neogeography (the distainful term Geographic Information System pros use to describe such [...]

Where you gonna be?

Google Earth and whereyougonnabe from Peter Batty on Vimeo Peter Batty has a funky screencast of his incipient social networking slash geolocation application, Where You Gonna Be? which allows you to see when your future itinerary crosses paths with other people you know. Initially implemented as a Facebook app, it now features Google Earth integration. [...]

Configuration vs Customisation

I loved a recent post by GIS luminary Peter Batty about forthcoming developments in the GIS industry. However, I was struck by his allusions to a future release of Smallworld which would dispense of the problems caused by the common practice of individual clients writing custom software to tailor the system to their specific needs, [...]