Slashgeo site closing

This is very very sad.  I loved being able to just check one rss feed and get an overview of geo stories.  I’m not a geospatial professional, and probably never will be, but as a developer and researcher working in the field, this was an invaluable resource for me, and one that I checked daily.

So long, and thanks.

W00t! The book is coming!

So our paper will appear in this book, soon.

Check it out: The Geospatial Web: How Geo-Browsers, Social Software and the Web 2,0 are Shaping the Network Society

Up the toilet

Sooo, in a quest to find useful mapping applications and examples on-line, I stumbled across the Australian Public Toilet Map. Now I recognise that this is a useful service – particularly for people with continence isssues (or young children), – and I thought that the trip planner could be an especially useful tool  – it still made me snigger!

We have a student working on trying to get our SOS information visible in GoogleMaps at the moment. That will be pretty cool if we get it to work.