GISRUK 2013 was hosted by The University of Liverpool between April 3rd – 5th. The conference kicked off with a Keynote presentation from Paul Longley. Paul is well known for his long research career and his excellent text books which … Continue reading
EDINA, the Jisc funded data centre based at the University of Edinburgh, has just released an app that allows users to capture data against high quality base maps. Fieldtrip GB has been designed to support teaching, learning and research in … Continue reading
Picked up from Kenneth Field’s Blog, the ESRC have put together a report on Human Geography in the UK. The report is co-authored by the RGS-IBG and the Arts and Humanities Council. The report concludes that the UK ranks top … Continue reading
Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Assistant Director of Geospatial, Cartographic and Scientific Data & Services, Stanford University gave the Monday keynote and this was followed by a show and tell session. The show and tell session gave project teams an opportunity to demonstrate … Continue reading
For the last 6-8 months, JISC has been running a specific “geo” related project strand. This has just about finished and Dave Flanders of JISC decided to run a multi-day event to bring together all the project teams for a show … Continue reading
I think the biggest statement that was made, or at least that i heard, during the INSPIRE 2011 was made by Prof. Nigel Shadbolt. Shadbolt stated the “Location was the connective tissue of open data”. This recognises the importance of … Continue reading
The session after the coffee break featured a panel discussion. Sitting on the panel were Gesche Schmid (Local Government Association), Pedro Diaz Munoz (Eurostat), Julian Kirby (Friends of the Earth), Martin Whitworth (Environment Agency) and Leen Hordijk (JRC). The session … Continue reading
EDINA are delighted to announce that the new Digimap for Schools service has been awarded the GOLD Certificate for the best overall resource in the the Geographical Association’s 2011 Publishers’ Awards. The GA Publishers’ Awards aim to recognise material which … Continue reading
Ordnance Survey have recently release the next version of their VectorMap District product. This can be considered a Beta release which replaces the Alpha version that was release in April 2010 as part of the initial OS OpenData package. So … Continue reading
Another bit of news from the Digimap team at EDINA and i think this will be of interest/use to many people out there. Mastermap data is now available as a download in a rasterised format from the Data Download Section … Continue reading
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