In his recent post on geotags in twitter Thierry Gregorius said “If you use Twitter then you will have noticed that the service encourages people to geocode their tweets, that is, to record their physical location at the moment of tweeting. What particular purpose this may serve is another point altogether, but let’s not get into that.” Well I do want to “get into that” With so called smartphones it is easy to add an x,y to almost everything, photos, tweets, checkins, blogposts. For many […]
Monthly Archives: July 2011
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This week I picked up some comment around the last in a series of Open Data Master Classes. I think a lot of the content of these classes was around the use of OS OpenData™ but the comments and following thoughts probably apply to all public sector data released as OpenData. The conversation was about the constraints on startups building businesses on Open Data. Jonathan Raper had recently written this blog post explaining the challenges that […]
A couple of questions in the House of Commons yesterday (surprising that there is time for any government business other than #notw). Thanks to They Work For You we know that Francis Maude and Ed Davey will be joint chairs of a Transition Board that will “oversee the establishment of the PDC Board“ and we also learn that a statement will be published in the autumn outlining “(a) the agencies and data to be included in […]
So what’s that title about? A summer season post, stretching metaphors and rambling a bit. It occurs to me that there have been some quantum shifts in the international and national political spheres this year. The common theme is that there came a point when popular orthodoxy and acceptance of the status quo was overturned by a relatively small event with unforeseen consequences. In the week when the Murdoch dynasty relinquished at least a bit […]
A couple of weeks back I was invited to talk to the graduate class at the Arup University. Arup offer a great study program for their staff that leads to an MSc in GIS, this was the final part of the program when the students come from around the world for a final week of workshops and talks. I thought I would be talking to about 10-15 students, in the event Ewan had publicised the […]