If you follow things geo it is difficult to miss the buzz that is building around Open Street Map and their sister company Cloudmade. The “wikipedia of maps” recently passed 100,000 contributors and the level of detail now matches or exceeds that avaialable from other street level mapping providers in the most mapped areas such as London although inevitably coverage and detail varies as you move out of major urban areas. But if OSM was […]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
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People’s Map is a newly launched service from getmapping.com and partners. It seems to sit somewhere between Open Street Map and a commercial data product combining user volunteered content and free for private use licensing but with a perpetual license fee for commercial use (not clear from the web site how the licensing will work). Unlike OSM, content creation is “moderated” by the People’s Map team before going live. I am not sure that I get […]
Excuse this is a test I have been wondering for a while where the cross over from tweets to mobile blogging was. I am trying out an iPhone app called LifeCast to see whether it is really viable to post from iPhone. So the first question is does this actually link to my blog. Well if you are reading it obviosly it does and if not …. Posted with LifeCast
I haven’t looked at OS Open Space for a while so I don’t know whether this is a newly spruced up set of pages. Anyone notice changes? I wonder if this is in anticipation of announcements on budget day? 25 days and counting ….
Yesterday I was at the Communia workshop co-organised by the Open Knowledge Foundation and the LSE, listening and talking about opening and unlocking public sector information. It was a sort of deja vue morning, with a large part of the morning taken up with discussion on geographic information. I think we all agree that the base geography is key to understanding a lot of the other data that is and hopefully will be avaialble from public […]
We have just announced that there will be a full Geoweb stream running through GeoCommunity. This will be in partnership with the team at #Geomob Lot’s of bubbling excitement around breaking down the barriers between neo and paleo from all involved. First plenary speaker confirmed but you will have to wait for the formal announcements. Need ideas for workshops and papers submitting through the AGI site before the end of April. Remember to follow GeoCommunity […]
A very enjoyable evening at Mashup Events Being Location Aware talking with a very knowledgable panel and audience. My slide on Google prompted a laugh particularly when some crafty person re-used it while Ed Parsons was talking without his own slides. Privacy prompted a lot of discussion and some passion including the view that the age of privacy was just about over. I think that there is a cumulative effect each time we disclose another detail […]
A flurry of misinformed opinions about Street View in the media. This morning’s Radio 4 had someone who clearly thought that Google had a camera continuously observing their house!
I went down to Bentley in Hampshire today to visit SeaZone. Managed to leave my coat on the train, cursed thinking “well I was due for a new one” but walked into the tiny station office where the sole employee just picked up the phone and called his colleague at the next station (end of line) and sure enough someone cleaning the train handed my coat in and I was able to pick it up […]
Conversation in a cab. “If OS are like Liverpool, what team represents OSM?”“Gretna” Your suggestions? Posted with a flaky Voda dongle on a train from the East Midlands to London
Off topic, except that Smithy drives a van to the FA coaching centre perhaps using GPS. Every England football fan would have liked to have had 10 minutes with this lot
If you are thinking of submitting a paper to GeoCommunity, do it before the end of next Friday, 20th March and i will donate a pound on your behalf to Red Nose Day. submission forms can be found here. Just tweet me or GeoCommunity to confirm that you have submitted and want me to donate on your behalf. Go on everyone you could cost me £100, create a major challenge for the selection committee chosing the […]