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Digital Mapping and Tracking
Despite having been around since at least 2300 BC, on Babylonian clay tablets, maps have now very much entered the digital age and are undergoing something of a revolution. These days you don't ask for directions, you pop your postcode into a website and up pops a map of your destination.
You can even measure the distance you have to travel, to the nearest foot or metre if you want. You can get street maps centred on your house, this year being marketed to London Marathon runners who want to make sure their 15 mile training run doesn't turn into 20 miles. Or you can feed your instructions into your car's navigation system and spare your spouse an argument.
And there's another product from combining digital mapping with satellite navigation, the ability to track people and goods as they move around the world. Just how commonplace will this technology become and to what extent will it transform our lives?
Guests
Steve Chilton, chair, Society of Cartographers
Martin Capel Smith, Head of Marketing, Navman Europe
Alain de Taeye, co-founder & CEO Tele Atlas
Peter Cochrane, former head Advanced Research, BT
Founder, Conceptlabs
Ed Parsons, Chief Technology Officer, Ordnance Survey
Ian Rycroft, Technical Director, Globalpoint Technologies
Nathalie Vetter, GIS Project Manager &
Peter Cridland, Corporate Information Manager,
London Borough of Barnet
Reporter Richard Fenton-Smith
Presenter Heather Payton
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