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Oct 27
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Posts?

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We have been getting a few emails asking where the posts have gone. In short we need to apologise as its simply been down to lack of time these last few weeks.

We have a GigaPan beta unit in the office at the moment, just waiting to be set up and explained but various lectures/reports/teaching are keeping us busy and annoyingly away from the blog.

Posts will be back this week and the GigaPan unit is definitely a post to look out for.

So we are here and we will be back, but at the moment we are running out the door to give a talk to The Society for Location Analysis…….

Oct 23
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MapTube: Geographic Surveys – BBC Manchester and Radio 4

By geographic visualization, google maps, MapTube, Survey Tools

At the moment we have two geographic surveys running with the BBC. Embedded below is the BBC Manchester Congestion Charge Survey:

Thanks go to our funders on the project – the National Centre for e-Social Science at Manchester University for setting this one up. Its nice to see maps used as part of a news item, MapTube was developed as part of our GeoVue grant at CASA (home of digital urban) to develop a free and easy way to share, mix and match professional maps online via the Google Maps interface.

Secondly Radio 4’s PM show is running an update to their Credit Crunch Survey – see the iPM post Credit Crunch: The return of the map.

Finally, although not a survey, MapTube also has a new map online detailing the money invested by UK councils following the collapse of the Icelandic banks.


View the Iceland Banks Money Invested Map.

Take part in the BBC Radio 4 Credit Crunch Survey.

Have your say on the Manchester Congestion Charge via BBC North West.

Oct 23
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MapTube: Geographic Surveys – BBC Manchester and Radio 4

By geographic visualization, google maps, MapTube, Survey Tools

At the moment we have two geographic surveys running with the BBC. Embedded below is the BBC Manchester Congestion Charge Survey:

Thanks go to our funders on the project – the National Centre for e-Social Science at Manchester University for setting this one up. Its nice to see maps used as part of a news item, MapTube was developed as part of our GeoVue grant at CASA (home of digital urban) to develop a free and easy way to share, mix and match professional maps online via the Google Maps interface.

Secondly Radio 4’s PM show is running an update to their Credit Crunch Survey – see the iPM post Credit Crunch: The return of the map.

Finally, although not a survey, MapTube also has a new map online detailing the money invested by UK councils following the collapse of the Icelandic banks.


View the Iceland Banks Money Invested Map.

Take part in the BBC Radio 4 Credit Crunch Survey.

Have your say on the Manchester Congestion Charge via BBC North West.

Oct 16
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London Gets Non-Google Street View: Seety and Earthware

By Earthware, google maps, Google Street View, Seety


Seety have beat Google somewhat to the table with a pretty comprehensive coverage of central London using street based panoramic imagery.

Navigation is nice, although not quite as smooth as Googles own street view product, the main question we have to ask is why? Its well known that Google is currently driving the streets of Europe capturing imagery and with it bound to be a default layer in a few months you have to ask why anyone else would do it?


London UK street level views, but not from Google from Brian Norman on Vimeo.

Licencing and use of imagery maybe a factor – Seety is being used by Earthware (a company worth watching) in the the latest version of our Earthware Property real estate mapping solution. The movie above demonstrates Seety imagery within the Earthware interface.

However with open use of the Google API we assume that property searches will make copious use of street view as soon as its available and where does that leave Seety (?)

Lots of questions we know…

See http://www.earthware.co.uk/ and http://www.seety.co.uk/ for more info and demos.

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