Chatting with local history buffs brought up amazing facts about climate change and sea level rise since the Middle Ages in East Anglia. One book's sketch map relates how the North Sea coastline differed from today, and how that affected Anglo-Saxon socio-economics there before and after the Norman conquest and the Domesday book.
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Wednesday 30 December 2009
Wednesday 23 December 2009
2D or not 2D, that is the question
Friends went to see Avatar the movie in 3D, while I saw it in 2D. We met to compare and contrast, mostly in regards to how technologies have evolved. My own interest is if immersive technologies will affect mapping and the web, as devices get smaller and smaller from laptops to mobiles
Wednesday 16 December 2009
What is next big thing?
Recent groundbreaking news abounds, and both an exciting and challenging times lie ahead.
Labels:
API,
data,
ExxonMobil,
Google,
management,
OGC,
oilelefant,
PPDM,
webmap,
WMS,
XML
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