iCloud: My Thoughts

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is underway and with that comes Steve Jobs famous keynote address and Apple’s lastest tech.  This year saw Jobs announce iOS 5, MacOS Lion, but more importantly Apple’s MobileMe replacement, iCloud. iCloud is Apple’s offering into the cloud computing infrastructure that Google and Amazon have dominated over the past few years.  […]

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‘Compactness’ in Zoning: the circle as the ideal.

I saw a thought provoking presentation recently, given by Wenwen Li of the University of California Santa Barbara, the talk was a wide ranging insight into Cyber Infrastructure, its uses for geospatial information, and some of the computational techniques that underpinned the project. One element of the project involved zone design for the greater Los […]

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Spatial Design for GP Consortia?

The government is set to release a bill detailing how it is they expect the proposed GP Consortia to work. GP Consortia, groups of GPs working together, are set to replace the current structure of Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) as the mechanism through which primary healthcare is provided to the […]

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Representing Populations: a Spatial Ecology

A subtitle to this post might also be: Are we all being mislead by the New York Times? In stating this I am referring to the recent maps released by the New York Times looking at ethnic distributions from the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. The most immediate thing we can learn about this […]

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Some Thoughts on the US Critical Facilities List

Naturally, as a Geographer the wikileaks release of facilities that the US believes critical to its security was interesting. Much like the chaps over at Floatingsheep some of us (Martin Austwick, James Cheshire, Peter Baudains, Alex Braithwaite) took it upon ourselves to map out the reported list. Martin came up with the following visualisation that […]

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