Mapping Hacks

Heather Brooke of Your Right To Know wrote an excellent article for the Times Law section recently, on Why we must cut the costly Crown copyright, a growing campaign on both left and right to repeal the obsolete laws of Crown Copyright that cover most state-produced information in the UK and in many ex-Commonwealth countries […]

A couple of weeks ago i greatly enjoyed attending and presenting at the Public Access to Maps/Data session of the Society of Cartographers‘ summer school.
Richard Fairhurst gave a particularly moving talk about how Waterscape had moved from a 2million pound, proprietary GIS package to a free, Flash-based one written in his free time, which actually […]

This OpenStreetmap article on easter egg streets and geographic data; things that don’t exist inserted into maps, in order to pursue anyone who might copy features from those maps, for intellectual property rights infringement. A fake street, “Lye Close”, identified by heath bunting, is illustrated with pictures.

Fake street features are fairly hard to find,
and we […]

The names will be changed to protect the, well, guilty, but this
could have been said by lots of companies:

Actual quote:
“We feel that we are a web service.”

To which Schuyler replied “We feel that we are a moribund corpse of a company, awaiting burial by an apathetic marketplace.

Perhaps you had to be there?

You get Paul Spencer’s project
www.ParisMinnesota.com — A PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIC ART PROJECT.

“In the 1920’s, avant-garde artists and writers converged on the Montparnasse
neighborhood of Paris making it the center of modern culture. But what if
they had all come to Saint Paul, Minnesota instead? That’s the premise of
‘ParisMinnesota.com’ a new website by artist Paul Spencer.

The website takes the […]