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Neil Ackroyd

@gpsbaby

On a lifelong mission to explore strange new worlds and map them. Was COO/CEO Ordnance Survey & prior @Trimble. Still mapping, a pixel and point at a time. Truly sorry for all the oil exploration back in the ‘80s..

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It would be nice if we stopped cooking the planet by asking #chatgpt to do pointless memes .

02.05.2025 17:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bankrupting a planet, that’s gonna sting .

04.04.2025 19:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Partially - but we identified too many areas with significant disturbance and the InSAR wasn’t as useful as the LiDAR. Essentially we were building a super precise DTM of a complex site and we built a cool database of the graves that weren’t mapped .

26.03.2025 22:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#gischat once had to map an ancient gravesite with inSAR and LiDAR to try to assess which graves many have been moved .

26.03.2025 21:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.

Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK

Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

17.03.2025 18:15 👍 16799 🔁 7043 💬 534 📌 847

Not a system recognise unless it’s a Topcon ?

14.03.2025 23:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Gosh if only we were members of
some form of European partnership of like minded independent nations .

09.03.2025 09:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Good to see the latest cloud native mapping services being advertised on the Edinburgh trams .

25.02.2025 15:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The inability of our species to learn from its mistakes will be our ELE. Hey Ho.

24.02.2025 20:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s why I still use fax and telex .

21.02.2025 21:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Most of the time they want it to be frictionless .

21.02.2025 21:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A Map of the Map.

05.02.2025 20:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is a common approach now with many UK companies in this space for quite a few years. The camera based lane assist /automated braking systems in 80% of all newer model cars has had this capability for the last five years. The issues are data privacy rather than technical .

17.01.2025 15:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We couldn’t have achieved this if we hadn’t all pulled together as a family. I gratefully accept this award for all of us.

12.01.2025 11:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The equivalent mapping data to Google maps is already open sourced and with open street map this is covered . Addressing beyond postcodes is another thing of course.

11.01.2025 15:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s likely we will end up with an even more segregated on-line world soon. This was never the promise of the Internet but inevitable now. The US can freely live in the on-line society their politicians want alongside Russia and China. Europe will build its own and the UK will have to decide.

11.01.2025 14:31 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It’s one of the most valuable digital assets RM have, so unlikely .

28.12.2024 23:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Genuinely the most tense, gripping sporting contest I've seen all year. Great sportsmanship at the end too 👏🏾

25.12.2024 12:49 👍 2565 🔁 604 💬 71 📌 183

#gischat trying to get surveyors and mappers to play nicely together.

11.12.2024 19:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Knew I pressed too soon .

04.12.2024 23:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Santa went past our house . Asked us to give him money .

03.12.2024 18:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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So impressed by #bluesky my feed is just #cats and #maps . Perfect .

30.11.2024 23:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Name the band .

27.11.2024 18:39 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0