Subject: ‘BBC’
| April 9, 2011Of Interest: Future of Navigation, Beauty of Maps on YouTube, Time Zones, Geographers in DemandGIS NewsDi-Ann Eisnor of Waze and Craig Chapman of Inrix are part of a roundtable podcast entitled “Where is navigation going?” over on Cnet. The podcast discusses how traffic data is collected, comparison of the benefits of car navigation devices and inter-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. (via @DiAnnEisnor) BBC has posted the entire twelve episodes of the Beauty ... read more April 16, 2010 Maps are CoolMapsApparently maps are cool, so proclaims an article in the UK Telegraph called “Maps – the new rock’n’roll“. The article details two new series on BBC and an exhibition at the British Library, all focused on maps. Peter Barber curates the Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art exhibit which starts April 30th and includes the Klencke ... read more December 10, 2009 Ordnance Survey: Mapping – A Future?DataBBC Radio 4 featured an interview with Director General Vanessa Lawrence of the Ordnance Survey and Charles Arthur, technology editor at the Guardian Newspaper. The Ordnance Survey and the recent announcement to make their data freely available was discussed on the You and Yours programme on Monday 7th December in a feature titled “Ordnance Survey: ... read more |
