Category: Web

OpenStreetMap Christmas

December 23, 2008 - Cool things , Internet , Openstreetmap , Web - by admin - No Comments

One day to go before Christmas, and the UK government have made an astounding contribution to the OpenStreetMap project. It will shortly be announced that through collaboration with the Department for Transport, Traveline, and OpenStreetMap, most of the NaPTAN and NPTG datasets will be offered to OpenStreetMap as a one […]

Isle of Man

August 17, 2008 - Internet , Openstreetmap , United Kingdom , Web - by admin - 3 Comments

It would appear that Google has decided that their map data for the Isle of Man isn’t good enough, and now allow everyone to edit it through their MapMaker system. Several things spring to mind… firstly that OpenStreetmap has great coverage of the island, and secondly, why doesn’t Google want […]

An Idea

July 15, 2008 - Computers , Cool things , Geek , Internet , Linux , Openstreetmap , Twitter , Web - by admin - 2 Comments

It’s probably already been covered, but my 30 seconds of Google-Fu hasn’t turned anything up so bear with me… Take one OpenMoko phone,Â a geolocation service like Fire Eagle, an online celltower database such as CellDB, and some code to use those lovely d-bus bindings, and you could have a […]

Flickr Video

April 9, 2008 - Internet , Web - by admin - No Comments

It’s been a long time coming, but Flickr have finally done it. Welcome to Flickr Video!

The New New Bible

January 28, 2008 - Internet , Web - by admin - No Comments

Recently, having almost completed the spec on HTML5, the WHATWG have announced that they are to commence work on the next biggest thing to hit humanity… The Bible. With updates to the ten commandments, the new Bible5 will also be RFC 2119 compliant, and promises to bring us closer to […]