Gary Gale invited me to talk to one of the 3 W’s of geo at W3G. I chose the “what” You can probably guess where this went. After a preamble about relevance, spatial patterns, distortion and open data I launched into my personal trawl through the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. My final message was “Think before you map”, I got a few laughs and a couple of people who I had not met […]
Monthly Archives: September 2010
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So the W3G conference is over, finished, gone. What an amazing day, it started with Henk Hoff and I leaving north London way before 7 to head up to Stratford geobabbling OpenStreetMap, navigation, maps, and stuff all the way there. When we arrived AGI’s very own unconference was already warming up and the room was full of people and to my delight this was not the same old same old who frequent the geoconference circuit. […]
I am thinking about “Just because you can put it on a map ….” the talk I still haven’t started for W3GConf and whilst pondering the question of what you should and should not try to stick on a map I am also feeling pretty caustic about naff and ugly. Or put more politely if it is worth mapping it is worth mapping in a useful, elegant and engaging way. In the last few months […]
So the government has decided that they will privatise or sell off the Royal Mail. Not much surprise there, the previous government would have done the same except it couldn’t face off the unions over this one. I can’t see a long term future for delivering bits of paper to households across the country, I wonder if t wouldn’t be cheaper to give everyone a broadband connected network printer and then work out a way […]
It is just 3 weeks to GeoCommunity.It looks like it is going to be a festival of geogoodness under the leadership of a new team headed by Simon Doyle (who is an ex GDC’er so he must be a goodish type of guy). On the Tuesday Gary Gale has organised a free unconferencey thing called #W3GConf, word has it there are only a couple of tickets left. The main conference program is fool (such a […]
CLG have recently published a Transition Plan for the Public Sector Mapping Agreement for England and Wales. A very useful document for anyone outside of the parties to the agreement who wants a bit more detail about what is going on. Under licensing the doc says PSMA licensing aims to ensure that the public sector can use the data provided under the agreement, and data derived from it, as widely as possible to deliver its […]
The people at Online Engineering Degree have published a list of their 50 Best Blogs for Geography Geeks and GIScussions gets in there at 35th. Not bad when you look at some of the others included. They said “Steven Feldman loves himself some geography, keeping an excellent blog that concentrates on how GIS technologies have forever changed the way people perceive the world around them.” Some wag suggested they should have clipped that to the […]
About 3 weeks to go to GeoCommunity and W3GConf. I am starting to think about my pressy at W3GConf which is entitled “Just because you can put something on a map …” Here are the bullet points that formed my abstract: A flood of open data combined with ever easier to use tools for mapping that data has the potential to unlock insights or create interactive pincushions. Opening up data does not guarantee useful or […]