Interesting means of getting imagery

Ed Parsons has just posted a blog about the user of a Nokia N95 and some simple hardware to collect very nice looking overhead imagery. The cost is pretty small (N95 has comms, GPS and a 5MP camera all built in) so it would be really cool to try this out. I wonder how reliable the flight is? Perhaps some predefined flight plan to make the images easier?

ESRI User Conference

So to give some metadata to the picture in the last post it is an image of the user conference on the first morning with a ‘bunch’ of people waiting to get in the door.From what I heard the conference numbers did not really go up and more astonishingly about 40% of the attendees where first timers! I think that the conference was good and went past as fast as usual.More of my thoughts over the coming weeks but I am glad that ArcGIS Mobile is getting the attention it deserves.

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ESRI User Conference

Well it’s almost that time again for some 13,000 people to meet up in San Diego. Just booked my flight yesterday (late I know) and I am starting to get jazzed.There should be some really good buzz around what will be in ArcGIS 9.3 and the 10.0 release. Most of the information was announced at the BP conference or Dev Summit but we shall see!It will be nice to see is ArcGIS Mobile is getting more attention. It deserves it!

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs on the same stage!

So I was just checking my email/news feeds today and noticed that those two giants are on the same stage talking about technology. I have only watched some of it but it seems to be interesting.The links can be found here.Currently listening to ‘Flathead’ by ‘The Fratellis’

New Google Earth data

Reading the Google Earth blog it looks like they have some new data in the UK and added support for other regions. Here is a link to the post.I just opened up Google Earth and looked at the town I grew up in (Livingston, Scotland) and it seems like nothing has changed Perhaps one of these days it will get some good imagery.

Decided to create a new blog about GIS

Well it happened. I decided that a bunch of the things I am writing about have no place being on our family blog (mainly focused around Euan and what we do as a family) and Work (focused on only the technology used and created at TC Technology).This is a good thing. People have RSS aggregators and software to read these feeds anyway so they are not visiting multiple websites these days.Watch this space for some thoughts that I have in the GIS community mainly around development in the GIS world but also some external GIS influences!