Tag Archives: GIS

GPS accuracy testing at 0 degrees East

Posted on December 14, 2010 by John san

…When East Isn’t East. Where better to test the accuracy and resoution of your GPS devices than the agreed ‘Prime Meridian of the World’ at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, where east meets west at zero degrees of longitude? I … Continue reading →

Posted in Out There In Here, Research | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

Improving GPS accuracy with EGNOS

Posted on December 2, 2010 by John san

One of the things we learned from our field trials this August was that the on-board GPS in our Android phones (HTC Desire, Nexus One) doesn’t resolve position as accurately as we’d like, often only achieving a 10m ‘accuracy’ (as … Continue reading →

Posted in Out There In Here, Research | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

New ideas from GEES Plymouth

Posted on July 12, 2010 by John san

During our visit to the GEES Learning and Teaching conference in Plymouth last week, we were introduced to some interesting new people and ideas.  We discovered that there’s a fairly similar project to OTIH in Kingston – the MoRSE project … Continue reading →

Posted in Out There In Here | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Location tracking with Big Brother GPS.

Posted on June 2, 2010 by John san

A slightly obscure Android application called Big Brother GPS allows us to track the location of a phone by displaying the output of the phone’s GPS receiver. A PHP script on a web server will display the location and show … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, Out There In Here | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

GIS and Surface

Posted on March 23, 2010 by TimC

This post demonstrates some of the possibilities for GIS interfaces on the Surface: There are several frameworks out there for integrating mapping in to WPF Surface apps: The above system used the ArcGIS API for Silverlight/WPF . I’ve also been … Continue reading →

Posted in Out There In Here, Research | Tagged , , | Leave a comment