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NLPG improves electoral registers in Great Britain

NLPG improves electoral registers in Great Britain

The NLPG (National Land and Property Gazetteer) is facilitating improvements in the quality of British electoral registers as part of the wider electoral modern… More…

 

2008 NLPG and NSG Exemplar Awards Announced

The Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) and Intelligent Addressing have announced the 2008 NLPG and NSG Exemplar Awards. The awards recognise the outstan… More…

 

Chinese Shortlist StreetMapper for 3D City Mapping

Chinese Shortlist StreetMapper for 3D City Mapping

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Shenzen Institute of Advanced Technology has short-listed the world’s most accurate mobile mapping system, StreetMapper, t… More…

 

Bluesky Maps Rutland’s Historic Highways

Bluesky Maps Rutland’s Historic Highways

Aerial mapping company Bluesky has completed a project to create a digital map of Rutland County Council’s highway network. More than 400 individual paper maps,… More…

 

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Past Issues - Archive
NLPG improves electoral registers in Great Britain… More…
02 July 2008, 4:38pm
2008 NLPG and NSG Exemplar Awards Announced… More…
30 June 2008, 11:51am
Chinese Shortlist StreetMapper for 3D City Mapping… More…
30 June 2008, 10:56am
Bluesky Maps Rutland’s Historic Highways… More…
27 June 2008, 10:33am
Strategic Flooding… More…
20 June 2008, 10:21am
Tackling Climate Change… More…
20 June 2008, 10:16am
DHL, T-system and ITRI offer sponsorship!!!… More…
20 June 2008, 8:52am
‘Citizen Science’ takes off...… More…
03 June 2008, 5:54pm
Discover the wood and the trees… More…
20 December 2007, 10:11am
This Month's Burning Issue...
Each month we select a hot topic and a leading figure in the industry to write about it.
This month's burning issue:

‘Pump up the volume’
Data Volume & Geo-Processing

I generally like to try to keep ‘Eye on the web’ inline with the topics of the magazine and this month the seemed a great pair to combine with things such as the Open Source Spatial Databases and Web services and how we can best utilize the vast amount of information available via the Web.

Although the most popular Open Source database on the web is MySQL (23 million sites can’t be wrong!) it isn’t the best Open Source SPATIAL database – for this the trophy goes to PostgreSQL with the PostGIS extension. I do a lot of linking to back office systems and… More…


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