Those of us living in the UK (or even stranded here this week) have been treated to an orgy of radio and television programming about maps over the last few weeks. First off there was Mike Parker’s “On the Map” a 10 part series on Radio 4 ranging through cartography, map making, the politics of mapping, navigation, telling lies with maps and one episode entitle “Whose Map Is It Anyway?” I missed several of the […]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
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I spent today at the Advances in Spatial Analysis & e-Social Science event at CASA/UCL today. It’s a warm up for the GISRUK (academic GI) conference and from past experience is somewhat more accessible to the non academics (like me) than the main conference. I came away disappointed and grumpy. I was left with the feeling that a lot of the “research” was superficial and hardly stretching the boundaries of knowledge or understanding but maybe […]
I missed a couple of thoughts from my winners and losers piece on the OS consultation. Firstly the folk who ran the consultation should be congratulated on reaching out to a lot of people and wading through 441 responses. Making sense out of the conflicting interests and opinions can’t have been easy. My view is that this was a well considered outcome that will achieve most of the aspirations of the OpenData community without destroying […]
The dust hasn’t settled yet from the government’s response to the OS Consultation but already I can hear the mumblings and grumblings. Inevitably 441 respondents (including 218 individuals) are not going agree on much if anything, the response document says “different stakeholders have different, and sometimes conflicting, objectives” So that might suggest that there are winners and losers. What follows is a quick trawl through the response highlighting some of the bits that may be […]