Mapping Hacks

Where the hell…?, by Jeremy, an OpenStreetmap list member who’s working on free maps of the Munich area in Germany. Artistic musings interweaved with war stories on working with public domain data sources and getting to grips with GRASS.
Being so far behind the times, i’d only heard today about the existence […]

When Schuyler first created the Geocoder.us web site he embedded maps from the Tiger Map Server. This is a project of the US Census bureau that provides free maps and free map data. All in all it is very very cool. The maps are not as pretty as some of the commercial […]

I didn’t know that ‘GPS’ actually stands for the Global Panty System. But The kind folks at Forget Me Not Panties have come up with the killer Location Based Service.
Fortunately (or not as is your wont) the ‘contagiousmedia.org’ in the url (well, and other clues, the knowledge of which paint me as a big […]

This time in BoingBoing… David Pescovitz wrote a stunningly nice review. Thanks David!

And now for something completely different. The Degree Confluence Project aims to collect photos and visitor records of visits to every place on the earth’s surface where degrees of latitude and longitude intersect.

Now Geo Project US aims to do the same for intersections of minutes. (Each ‘degree’ of latitude or longitude is divided […]

Jo and Schuyler and I have been running about, There was the Open Source
Geospatial conference, and then Where 2.0, and then I was on vacation… so
apologies about the shortage of posts.

With that said, this is a kind review of Mapping Hacks.