Last week I was fortunate to present at the SSSI Qld Northern Surveyors Group conference. The dinner speaker was Andy Froggatt  who is not from the Surveying industry but from the Health industry. He gave a fantastic presentation on depression in the workplace. It was really challenging to listen to as there wasn’t a single person in the room who didn’t resonate with one of his many statistics or stories.

My first small step towards change is getting involved for the first time in Movember. Raising money and more importantly awareness of Men’s health issues. For more information…

I love seeing new ways of displaying location. Yesterday I visited a local menswear shop, Apartment in Brisbane. They had recently moved and had a “we’ve moved” card. Here is the map they provided showing their new address. Great design from Zero Hour & Co

The proliferation of websites using Google Maps on their “contact us” page means we don’t get more innovation on location display like this from Graphic Designers.

With the release of Version 5 of Google Maps on Android the processing has moved away from web servers and onto mobile devices by becoming a vector application. Up until this release, all versions of Google Maps, on phones or desktops, were based on the client requesting raster tiles from the server whenever you zoomed or panned across the map. This article takes a detailed look at these features from a Digital Cartography perspective. It is also interesting for people who are looking at the benefits of getting devices to do more of the heavy lifting.

Map Tiles are created…