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Community Centres in Bristol

Submitted by JMB on Sun 19/Apr/2009

You don’t have to spend huge amounts of money on Information Technology to produce useful and sophisticated information tools.

A good example is available here, from Bristol City Council:


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It’s an Google map of Community Centres in and around Bristol. And it’ a lot more user-friendly than the expensive Pinpoint GIS Software that the Council uses for most mapping tasks, which is so complex that it even needs its own dedicated support team.

Let’s hope the Council can give more thought to this low-cost approach to IT, as opposed to spending £12 million on shiny kit.

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Google Street View in Bristol (& UK) - Live!

Submitted by JMB on Thu 19/Mar/2009

Street View - England & Wales

Google Street View in the United Kingdom is now online. They've imaged most of the major cities in England, Wales & Scotland, including our own Bristol.

Here's my flat:


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If you see any interesting views, then post them in the comments.

A few things I've noticed so far:

Cabot Circus building works recorded for posterity


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A view up Park Street

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Google Street View Bristol (& UK)

Submitted by JMB on Fri 19/Sep/2008

No sign of Google Street View for Bristol (or the rest of the UK) yet, but in the interim here's an amusing picture from Paris, which is the closest place to us with Street View enabled (Google took some photos of the route of the Tour de France 2008) Zoom in to see the man with half a head.


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