national geographic
Photos: National Geographic explores store tech
Photo The National Geographic Society opened its flagship store on London's Regent Street last week in time for the switching on of the Christmas lights, celebrating the society's 120 years of bringing the... [18 Nov 2008]
Ordnance Survey Puts Records Management on the Map With HP TRIM Software
White Paper Ordnance Survey, Great Britain's national mapping agency provides the most accurate and up-to-date geographic data that is relied on by government and businesses. Ordnance Survey needed to improve the... [21 Jun 2009]
Object-Oriented Classification for Change Detection With Different Spatial Resolution Images
White Paper With rapid new technological development during the past 50 years, aerial photos have been increasingly and commonly used not only in geographic information systems but also in various spatially related applications. [13 Dec 2008]
Google mashes up US elections
News Google has worked on other customised layers for the US National Parks Service, the Discovery Channel and National Geographic. Google has created a mash-up that combines its popular... [23 Oct 2006]
Blackpool Council boosted by geo database
News The geographic database is closely linked to the National Land and Property Gazeteer (NPLG) - an initiative to create a comprehensive property database for the whole of the UK. The... [20 Feb 2007]
Local authorities sign up for digital mapping
News The service will give authorities the same access to digital maps and other geographic information on the location and dimensions of an address. The MSA covers 551 UK authorities, including national... [07 Sep 2005]
Photos: Windows 7, supercomputers, Google Labs, iPill
Photo The National Geographic Society opened its flagship store on London's Regent Street last week in time for the switching on of the Christmas lights. Photo credit: Argonne National... [27 Nov 2008]
Devil's Advocate: VoIP not for everyone
Comment Both personal and business telephone bills are increasingly dominated by calls to mobiles and to non-geographic numbers. Non-geographic calls offer very few opportunities for cost avoidance, with... [13 Dec 2004]
Fibre era fraught with roadblocks: EC
News Unbundling of fibre is currently neither technically nor economically possible which means that alternative operators must invest in their own fibre or use a bitstream service of the incumbent… In the many geographic... [04 Sep 2008]
Divided we fall: Data dispute highlights need for international laws
Comment That means laws or guidance that are applicable across geographic boundaries, if not worldwide then at least continent by continent. Contrast this with the isolationist approach the UK government has taken to email... [06 Jul 2000]
Google gears up for geographical search
News Google is experimenting with search results tailored to a person's geographic location, following a similar move by rival Overture Services. It "extract hints, or what we call 'signals,' about the... [23 Sep 2003]
Geography lessons for online retailers
Comment Geolocation has essentially dispelled the myth of the borderless internet by enabling geographic locations to determine what content is displayed to whom. The technology determines the geographic... [09 Jan 2008]
What's in a name? ICANN and the Net name game
Comment Trademarks are geographic and the Internet is international by definition. As national boundaries are broken down by global ecommerce, he warns, more and more companies with the same, or similar, names... [06 Sep 1999]
Brampton Factor: Don't get your hopes up for BT's 21CN
Comment Now BT is preaching as if it had not promoted and connived at defrauding the public over the increasingly detested non-geographic numbers 0845, 0870, etc. The BT programme to roll out a national IP... [17 Oct 2006]
Roaming rates to fall by up to 70 per cent
News It doesn't reflect the geographic, the demographic, the regulatory, or the commercial differences across Europe. He added: "The proposal now says at the wholesale level these costs will be pegged to the... [14 Jun 2006]
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