

 

PS News has republished a piece from the UK paper The Guardian that looks at the barriers that are stopping government from adopting a cloud strategy. While written about the UK, most of the article is still relevant, with the same barriers – security, cost, difficulty of migration – applicable down our end of the Earth, too.

 

As a counterpoint to this, O’Reilly Radar has a piece on the benefits that a newspaper found when it moved its workflows to Google Docs and WordPress (cloud document storage, and an online CMS, respectively).

 

Jonathan Crowe of The Map Room starts this post by apologising for taking so long to post this link – a year and a half. Clearly, posting a link this old must mean something, and, indeed, this story – on the possibility that GPS is causing our brain’s navigation abilities to atrophy – is a real winner, and something I can attest to (curse you, smartphone!).

 

Speaking of The Map Room, sadly Jonathan Crowe has decided to pack it in. He will still post whenever he finds something delicious, but The Map Room won’t see regular updates again. Sad face.

 

Any Tour de France fans out there should check out Google Maps Mania for their round up of four different maps (well, three and one game) on the world’s most famous cycle race.

 

Google Earth is a pretty amazing piece of software, made even better by the fact that it’s free. If you want to use it for something great, but aren’t 100% on what the restrictions are, then Ed Parsons has put together a post that talks about a little wizard that can help you find out just what you can and can’t do with this magical free tool.

 

Google Maps Mania tell us all about a handy tool that can be used to create an animated Google Map. Handy for showing data over time, like your last bike ride across the Himalayas, or that canoe trek through the Antarctic.