Mapping Hacks

Simon sent us this
review of Mapping Hacks by a fellow blogger. Apparently, they
really liked the cover! We also got a nice reader
review on Amazon. Check it out!

Before and
after in Zimbabwe. Go ahead, click the link.
200,000 people used to live in the area shown in this picture. Now they
don’t. Shanty towns are being razed. People are running ahead of bulldozers
trying to pry bits of material off of their shacks so they have some material
to use to build again, […]

Rich, Jo, and I have more or less finally recovered from the MapServer User Meeting
& Open Source Geospatial 2005 conference in Minneapolis, which I must
say absolutely rocked and then some. I meant to do some blogging from the
conference but got utterly swept away by people and events — but I think Gnat
more or less captured
the […]

Directions Magazine, one of the most respected professional GIS
publications around today, has offered up a glowing
review of Mapping Hacks:

Part of the value of this tome (it’s more than 500 pages) is the accessible
descriptions of technology. Want to understand how wardriving works? Check page
69. Need to understand projections? That’s page 120. The discussions are clear,
and personable, […]

I’m visiting the US for the first time since Google Maps came out, we’re staying in Brooklyn with a friend of Schuyler’s; one afternoon while he’s off visiting the The Open Planning Project, i decide to track down the local highly-recommended organic grocery. Where would i think to try first but Google’s spatial search? The […]

I’ll just point to HoBu’s summary of the key points of the Open Source Geospatial conference which has left all our heads buzzing, otherwise it’ll take days to write everything down; so many highlights, that the post-impression is just a bright glow.
One big highlight for us was finally getting to meet in real life, our […]

Since i cracked and installed java on my laptop, i’ve become addicted to the openstreetmap editing applet. Right now it allows you to trace over the top of GPS tracks that you upload in GPX format; create nodes, and make them into street segments.

I found it terribly addictive in a slightly Tetris-like way, which is […]

On June 6th, the INSPIRE Directive goes into the European Parliament for its first reading. This is a Directive that will establish a legal and technical framework for a European spatial data infrastructure.
I suppose one could view this in the way the French have viewed the European Constitution. Too much effort, says the ‘pro’ side, […]