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August 24, 2006
'Oyster is a surveillance tracking system'
I saw and snapped this on a bus stop in central London. Someone cares enough about tracking and privacy to print and distribute these stickers. As I have previously argued... just to implement systems that track people without giving people control over their data and implementing full transparency in governance, is to court trouble.
Jonathan
Posted by raper at 01:13 PM | Comments (0)
August 05, 2006
GPS waypoint archive
Thanks to Phil Newby for his excellent GPS waypoint archive for British and Irish mountain walking. You can find it here
Jonathan
Posted by raper at 02:54 PM
August 04, 2006
Galileo doubted
Occasional doubts surface about Europe's positioning satellite system Galileo, either because the cost is perceived as too great, or because it is the kind of European project that might get mired in Euro-compromise... or even because it is only associated with Big Brother style projects like road user charging.
From my perspective as a designer of location-based services, Galileo is absolutely essential to finish the job that GPS started. When we have 60 satellites up there then GPS-driven applications will be guaranteed to get a fix and are much more likely to provide convincing performance.
I took part in a debate on Galileo organised by LogicaCMG at the Royal Geographical Society/ Royal Society of Navigation on July 25th this year to re-state the case for Galileo case (the panel consisted of Prof. David Begg, Lord Neil Kinnock, Tom Wills-Sandford, PatNorris and myself.
You can listen to a podcast of the debate here, which I hopes puts a more positive case for Galileo!
Jonathan
Posted by raper at 08:54 PM | Comments (0)