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• Gipúzcoa Provincial Council releases all its geo data

  
  OpenGeoData — Authority: 522
  The folks over at the Tagzania blog just announced this: Today, it’s a great day. The Gipúzcoa Provincial Council has released all its data in the B5M geo website under a free license. B5M website screenshot The “ Legal information ” page has some changes including what we believe is a license ...
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• Group on Earth Observations strengthens access to data and information

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 134
  The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is holding its annual Plenary meeting in Washington on 17-18 November to assess and promote progress towards making information about global environmental change readily available to policy-makers, managers and anyone else who needs it. "GEO is on track to make critical ...
  4 days ago

• Ordnance Survey to open up UK geospatial data

  
  Open Knowledge Foundation Blog — Authority: 458
  In a press release earlier this week, it was announced that there will be moves to open up geospatial data produced by the Ordnance Survey: The Prime Minister and Communities Secretary John Denham will today announce that the public will have more access to Ordnance Survey maps from next year, as part of a ...
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• Perché ATM Milano non aiuta la città

  
  ][ stefano maffulli — Authority: 119
  Si legge in giro che il problema di Milano è il traffico e la soluzione sarebbe un uso diffuso dei mezzi pubblici. Poi vai sul sito di ATM per calcolare un percorso e ti rendi conto che per loro il passante non esiste, che il sito mobile non ha i tracciati dei mezzi di superficie e che i dati sul traffico non ...
  1 week ago

• Brasil: Geotecnologias estão presentes em pesquisas do Pantanal

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 134
  A aplicação e a difusão das geotecnologias estão cada vez mais presentes nos estudos sobre o ecossistema Pantanal. Cerca de 250 pesquisadores, estudantes e especialistas apresentaram trabalhos científicos durante o 2° Simpósio de Geotecnologias do Pantanal - GeoPantanal realizado em Corumbá, MS, de 7 a 11 de ...
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• Four short links: 18 November 2009

  
  O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — Authority: 659
  Memento: Time Travel for the Web -- clever versioning hack that uses HTTPs content negotiation to negotiate about the date! Ordnance Survey Maps to Go Online -- The prime minister said that by April he hoped a consultation would be completed on the free provision of Ordnance Survey maps down to a scale of ...
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• Opening the Ordnance Survey

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 748
  The British government has announced plans to make Ordnance Survey map data freely available online . The Ordnance Survey is the government-funded agency which maps the country at high resolutions. Unlike the US Geological Surveys public-domain data, Ordnance Survey maps are proprietary, and licensed only under ...
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• Has Ordnance Survey Managed to Find a Clue?

  
  open... — Authority: 559
  This is better than I was expecting: Speaking at a seminar on Smarter Government in Downing Street later today, attended by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt, the Prime Minister will set out how the Government and Ordnance Survey, Great Britain’s national mapping agency, will open up its data ...
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• links for 2009-11-12

  
  GPS Comarison|GPS Reviews — Authority: 126
  TomTom to bring free lane guidance, text-to-speech, iPod control to iPhone GPS appadvanced lane guidance, text-to-speech, "Help Me," updated map / safety cameras (in select European nations) databases, customizable audio warnings and iPod player control. New features coming with the update, according to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tracks in Time – Tithe Maps for Leeds

  
  thinkwhere — Authority: 104
  Popped along to the official launch of West Yorkshire Archive Service’s (WYAS) Tracks in Time website and their new online mapping application , held at the City Museum. Earlier the prototype was leaked onto Secret Leeds to an enthusiastic response. I’d always been interested in this project, having been ...
  2 weeks ago

• OpenAerialMap Resurrection

  
  Mateusz Loskot — Authority: 119
  Quick forward of important announcement to all who care about future of the OpenAerialMap project. Schuyler Erle called on Facebook: Join the conf call on restarting OpenAerialMap at the Random Hacks of Kindness code jam! OAM Conference Call: Thursday 8:30AM PST
  2 weeks ago

• Links for November 11th

  
  Infovore — Authority: 422
  jordanmechner.com » Blog Archive » Designing story-based games "Eons ago, in 1996, Next Generation magazine asked me for a list of game design tips for narrative games. Here’s what I gave them. Reading it today, some of it feels dated (like the way I refer to the player throughout as “he”), but a lot is as ...
  2 weeks ago

• AGI North’s Where2Now Conference

  
  thinkwhere — Authority: 104
  Yesterday we had a great one day packed geo-conference in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Cheers to all the sponsors, the AGI, Rollo for organising it and GeoPlan for hosting it. Folks from Yahoo, Google and Microsoft were present. Presented about Open Historical Maps – with the example of the collaborative ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Cake Test

  
  OpenGeoData — Authority: 522
  During the course of history, we have used several types of tests to tell if something is what it seems to be, or to check if it is up to expectations. Now we use industrial stress tests, quality assurance checklists and software metrics. We put dummies inside of cars and crash them into concrete walls at full speed, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2010: Call for Proposals

  
  Open Knowledge Foundation Blog — Authority: 458
  The Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2010 Call for Proposals is now open! We would be grateful for help in circulating the call to relevant lists and communities! You can reuse or point to: This blog post Main CFP page Plain text announce (wrapped at 72 characters) Identi.ca post Twitter post Open ...
  2 weeks ago

• Birmingham Music Map

  
  jonbounds/blog — Authority: 114
  I’m a great supporter of the Birmingham Music Archive , and have long been discussing types of social media and other work that could contribute to their archiving of Birmingham based music and related culture. One idea I came up with was to map people’s music emotional attachments. Not just musicians or venues ...
  3 weeks ago

• AT&T Sues Verizon Over “Map For That” Ads

  
  OpenGeoData — Authority: 522
  These great commercials have got Verizon in a bit of trouble Read the slashdot story .
  3 weeks ago

• Loopt’s location-based search engine Pulse could be big

  
  GPS Comarison|GPS Reviews — Authority: 126
  Loopt PulseLoopt is entering the local search space with Pulse, a new search service that will initially be available through its website and later as an iPhone application.Pulse pulls in local content from a number of other services including Citysearch, Thrillist, Zagat and Eventful, allowing access to business ...
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• Open Data from Toronto

  
  OpenGeoData — Authority: 522
  Mark Kuznicki hosted the Toronto Open Data Lab at the Toronto Innovations Showcase this week.  This was the official launch of dataTO.org , Toronto.ca/open and the release of several open data sets . I was pleased to meet so many folks working at the city of Toronto and at the province of Ontario who showed ...
  3 weeks ago

• What does hyperlocal mean? And what does that mean for news?

  
  jonbounds/blog — Authority: 114
  Local is local for different people for different reasons — some to do with legislature, economics, transport, facilities, people, even “community” (another word with little definite meaning). Local in newsgathering has been based upon technologies (eg transmitter placement) or economies of scale (how many towns ...
  3 weeks ago

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