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Infrastructure for Mapping

I do like a bit of infrastructure. Yesterday, I went out for a walk around Farley Chamberlayne to explore some Fairport Convention history after reading Wylding Hall. Walking up the Farley Monument Mount, which has views towards Southampton on a clear day, I noticed this Ordnance Survey (OS) trigonometry point. Given the computation used to […]

August 30, 2024 – 10:27 am | By iain_emsley | Posted in Programming | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Mashing up the present – Elsevier dips toe into Article of the Future

ReadWriteWeb has an article on Elsevier’s Article of the Future. As commentators sense, this appears to be a concentration of curent technologies. Also, as one commentator has mentioned, Elsevier has an expensive paywall around them and true innovation would be allowing the articles to be published for free (as in speech and beer), especially if […]

July 26, 2009 – 9:32 am | By iain_emsley | Posted in Information Retrieval | Tagged , | Comments (2)