timrollpickering (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
I've just seen the piece BBC News: MP with... the biggest constituency about Andrew Turner, MP for the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is the constituency with the single largest number of electors of any in the United Kingdom and as such it frequently features in the numerous online discussions about constituency sizes that have appeared over the year. I've seen so many people make wild claims that...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Isle of Wight MP Andrew Turner talks about life as the Member of Parliament with the largest number of constituents to represent.
Compiler (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
When most people think of online maps they think of Google, Yahoo, MapQuest and other big name geo services, but those aren’t the only options for developers working with geodata on the web. Andrew Turner, CTO of GeoCommons, recently gave a talk at the Future of Web Apps Conference in London entitled “Beyond Google Maps.” Turner’s [...]
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
FOWA London—Beyond GoogleMaps . Andrew Turner’s talk at FOWA was the most information dense presentation I’ve ever seen, and discussed a huge number of cool geo projects that I’d never previously heard of. Andrew links to the full slides and video, well worth a watch.
O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The amount of geocontent on the web is expanding. With it has come an increased ability to use this data to sell location-based services that are tied to the web. Andrew Turner and I cover this shift in our new report "Where 2.0: The State of the Geospatial Web". In the 55 page report we examine: How Web 2.0...
Simon Willison's Weblog (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
FOWA pre-interview: Andrew Turner . I’ve started to post pre-interviews with speakers to the FOWA blog, in advance of the conference next week. First up is Andrew Turner of Mapufacture.
Dine Online (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Great British Sandwiches Award winning chefs Mark Hix and Andrew Turner create their favourite sandwich The iconic Hovis Little Brown loaf, first introduced in 1886, is making a comeback 122 years later. As part of the celebration of its return, celebrity chefs, Andrew Turner and Mark Hix, are creating bespoke ‘Great British Sandwiches’. The sandwich, club, sarni, sub. [...]
The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
A councilman from Washington Borough in Warren County spent Tuesday night in jail after being arrested on a bad-check charge. Blairstown police said Andrew Turner, 40, wrote a $2,707 check to a local lumber company that he knew his bank...
Digital Urban (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
This coming Tuesday (23rd September). O'Reilly is hosting a live webcast with Andy Turner on the evolution of Web 2.0, if you can make it, it should be well worth it. Full details below: Description: In this live webcast, geospatial web expert Andrew Turner will discuss the current evolution of Where 2.0 and how it is affecting the entire landscape of Web 2.0 and next generation applications. Open...
Moving Past Push Pins (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Our own Andrew Turner and Mikel Maron presented at Web 2.0 Expo today on trends and technology in Where 2.0. Cutting Edge Where 2.0 Trends To kick things off Brady Forrest of O’Reilly and Andrew just published a report on the GeoWeb space, it’s available now. For those not familiar with the Geo-geek world they started [...]
Paul Ramsey (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
From Andrew Turner , the Urban Spoon spatial-temporal map of restaurant seeking. Among the insights you can glean from this data presentation: People look for restaurants in cities full of people, not in the wilderness. People don't look for restaurants when they are asleep. Perhaps a zoomed in view of San Francisco would be more interesting.
James Fee GIS Blog (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
I watched the BarCamp.mil from afar and from what I’ve heard it sounded like it was a great event. Andrew Turner says that open source got quite a bit of play. In the open-source world, a government supported promotion of its use would have dramatic effects. Looking at the current state of commercial company support [...] ShareThis
BarCamp (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
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BarCamp (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
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Moving Past Push Pins (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Andrew Turner had a great post a few days ago asking the question “is Google Maps GIS'” Lots of insightful discussion ensued with questions around what is the definition of GIS and has the term itself outlived its usefulness. In response to Andrew’s post, many folks argued that GoogleMaps/Earth is a GIS. Folks on [...]
