Showing posts with label GPS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GPS. Show all posts
15 July 2012

UK Ministry of Defence Close To Gaining Patent On Key GPS Technology; US Not Amused

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Normally, we think of the US as the champion of patenting " anything under the sun that is made by man ," while the UK is general...
09 February 2009

Free The Postcode - Yes, *You* There

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One of the most successful open projects is OpenStreetMap , which seeks to bypass the Ordnance Survey's stranglehold on geodata in the U...
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17 June 2008

Insecurity is Bad for Your Health

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Outrageous : A shocking article appeared yesterday on the BMJ website. It recounts how auditors called 45 GP surgeries asking for personal i...
23 January 2008

Without Costing an Arm and a Leg

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On Open Enterprise blog .
20 October 2007

The Dash of OpenMoko

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What's Dash ? Dash Express is the smartest Internet-connected automotive navigation system on the road. In fact, it's the first and ...
05 October 2007

Why Free Flies - and Galileo Doesn't

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Nice little piece by Charles Arthur in the Guardian today that pulls together a bunch of disparate stories (including my Alfresco profile ...
24 January 2007

Mapping the Fourth Dimension

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Good to see that Yahoo is letting OpenStreetMap use its aerial imagery to speed up the process of free map creation. Of course, we still n...
11 January 2007

Drawing Closer: Location Awareness

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I'm afraid this is proprietary for the moment, but the idea's clearly generalisable : Skyhook Wireless Inc....today announced at the...
20 November 2006

Free Our Postcodes

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Postcodes are something that should obviously be a commons - owned by and available to all. Instead, in the UK, you have to pay serious dos...
04 May 2006

OpenStreetMap - Finding Our Way

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I wrote a little about the Guardian 's campaign to obtain open access to Government-generated data (which we pay for), but here's ...