Happy GIS Day From the GeoMonkey!

5 Comments

1. Smitty
   Posted November 19, 2008 at 9:46 am | Permalink

   James -

   I think you need to go in with Jack on a line of plush GeoMonkey Dolls….. The ultimate in Swag at next years UC

2. PB
   Posted November 19, 2008 at 12:38 pm | Permalink

   F the geomonkey.

   Next thing you know, you’ll have us swinging geo-thundersticks and rooting for the geo-angels and John “dissolve” Lackey.

   We need a new, improved mascot…

3. James Fee
   Posted November 19, 2008 at 1:34 pm | Permalink

   Don’t fear the GeoMonkey.

   He is only related to the Rally Monkey in last name only.

4. Eric
   Posted November 20, 2008 at 8:30 pm | Permalink

   Check out the City of Austin GIS Day video -

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1iPe0LtCew

5. ChrisW
   Posted November 21, 2008 at 7:16 am | Permalink

   Sadly, it’s only GIS Day in the USA.

   Here in dear old Blighty, things are rather different:

   http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/20/ordnance-survey-google-maps

   Apparently, the UK Ordnance Survey has recently asserted such strict rules for re-using its data that even the London Metropolitan Police may now be in breach of their licence for publishing a crime map online.

   And the winners of a UK government-sponsored competition to suggest new web-mapping applications, mostly based on Google Maps, would probably be in breach too.

   I understand that no prizes were awarded for joined-up thinking.

   The GeoMonkey is fortunate to live in the Land Of The Free Spatial Data – he’d probably starve on this side of the Atlantic…

   Run free, GeoMonkey, run free!