Online Maps
WRITTEN ON Tuesday, September 13th, 2005 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Online Maps, What do we want?
Tie Wikipdia articles to Google maps locations with Matthew Somerville’s PlaceoPedia. It’s not strictly speaking public sector data, but it’s public domain data which is even better I suppose. Suddenly its an open road ahead to the place where all human knowledge is linked and searchable by locations.
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, August 31st, 2005 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Online Maps
Anyone need a school in Devon? Simon at Total Change gives you a satellite view of the lot – see http://www.totalchange.com/simon/schools/ . Definite contender for a Google lava lamp. And I defy you to work out what else is going on at the Total Change web site.
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WRITTEN ON Friday, July 29th, 2005 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Online Maps
Cool. Find the local library with a Google map. The splendid Google Maps Mania blog reckons this one is a prime candidate to win our contest (and they may have just volunteered themselves to join the judging panel): Libmap UK is a Public and Academic Library location service for UK libraries. By using the selections […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, July 28th, 2005 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Online Maps, Save Time and Money, What do we want?
Just as Giles Lane and Bill Thompson raise the question of accessible licences for Ordnance Survey data, I see from KableNet that the OFT is to investigate public information The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has launched a market study into public sector information holders (PSIHs) It announced on 28 July 2005 that it would […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, July 27th, 2005 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Online Maps
This is cool. A BBC news story about poverty with a zoomable draggable map of Charles Booth’s original survey. But the dragging works the opposite way to what we’re rapidly becoming accustomed to. C’mon guys, drive on the right like everyone else!
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, July 27th, 2005 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Online Maps
Cool. Five-day weather forecasts all mapped out by Capes & MacLeod (you know – Telfords Premier Used Caravan Dealer).
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, July 27th, 2005 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Online Maps
You can see on this useful timeline by Eric Baillargeon what has happened since Google maps were launched on 8 Feb. UK hackers are not far off the pace, it seems, eg: 8 Feb 2005 : Launch of Google Maps 9 Feb : Google Maps Reversed Engineered 6 April : Google Maps adds satellite pictures […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, July 22nd, 2005 BY Paul Maunders AND STORED IN Online Maps
Our first entry in to the Government Data Map Hack competition is an example from one of our websites that has airport code information for most of the world’s airports. Take a look at this list of the UK’s top airports, and when you click on the airport names you will see each airport’s location […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, July 22nd, 2005 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Online Maps
Cool. Mapped out house sale prices. Sent in by Pete Zaborsky.
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WRITTEN ON Friday, July 22nd, 2005 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Online Maps
Cool. Mapped BBC News. By Ben O’Neill at Southampton Uni, aka ninja grapefruit.
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