This post is the third in a series of 4 about attending the AppsWorld conference in London. Rufus Mall, one of our Application Engineers was interested in the Android track. Rufus has mainly worked on our 3D visualisations and iOS application (VentusAR and 3DTry.it) so he knows his way around iOS very well, but is
This post is the second in a series of 4 about attending the AppsWorld conference in London. One of our developers, Minh Nguyen, when down the Enterprise Application development track. Minh does a lot of backend work for us developing, supporting and maintaining our websites, services and database. Here are some of his notes on
This post is the first in a series of 4 about attending the AppsWorld conference in London. George Banfill, our Technical Director attended and had the following comments on the event. As a company it is important to us to know what else is going on in the app development world. The best way we
Geospatial Conference Season September, or Maptember as it was termed this month, was open season for geospatial conferences – and in more ways than one. Earlier, the Open Street Map ‘State of the Map’ was held in Birmingham and there were at least 10 other events nationally. For Linknode it was a return to Nottingham
2020 Climate Group Lecture Series Last Wednesday evening, one of the last warm September evenings, I attended second of Scotland’s 2020 Climate Group lecture programmes at St. Paul’s and St. George’s Church in Edinburgh presented by Samantha Barber and Dave Gorman. Stephen Belcher, Head of the Met Office Hadley Centre spoke first with the facts
Research in Visualisation Last night I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Kieran Baxter on the use of aerial photography for digital production, survey, contextual interpretation and visual storytelling at the Centre for Stewardship in Falkland. This topic has a lot of potential touch points with Linknode’s HistoryLens project for reconstructive augmented reality and
Visual Representation of Wind Farms Scottish National Heritage (SNH) provide good practice guidance for the visual representation of wind farms. Derived from research and publications for over 10 years the documents provide a standard for production of visualisation methods and methodologies that are used widely in Scotland and referenced widely. In 2012 a consultation and
VentusAR Launches at All-Energy That was the week that was! May 22-23 saw the launch of VentusAR, our unique tablet solution for mobile visual impact assessment at All-Energy in Aberdeen. The All-Energy is what it says on the tin – an all encompassing show spread across the gigantic Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre plus overspill
HistoryLens: Call for Partners Today at the Museums and Heritage Show at Olympia in London Linknode announced a call for partners to be part of the HistoryLens development programme. HistoryLens is GIality for local museums and heritage trusts – taking collections digitally back into the field with geospatial augmented reality. Using our 3D visualisation capabilities
Augmented Reality Roadshow On Thursday May 9, Linknode were invited to present at the AmbITion AR roadshow in the wonderful Macrobert Arts centre at Stirling University (our local). In the morning we ran two introductory workshops to QR codes – triggers enabling analogue-to-digital context commonly used by smartphones and tablets. QR codes are widely used in advertising, retail
