Mapping Hacks

Aside from it being entertaining you get posts like
Google map of world’s best comic book stores. The actual map is available here

I just spent three days at the O’Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference. Short coverage: wow! It was great. The ‘Conference Coverage’ page has lots of stories, and they are planning to release video of all the sessions where the presenters sign off.

A lot happened, and a lot of it gave at least a nod to location. […]

Rich is curating a geo-hacking themed evening event for PlaNetwork, a kind of optimistic theory organisation who run regular conferences in the Bay Area, and sometimes in NYC, with a social-environmental-change angle. It’s on Sunday Feb 2nd 2006 at 111 Townsend Street in SF.
The event that Rich has been putting together is called GEO MAPPING […]

I am not one of those who’s whole existence is divided into the time before reading On the Road, and
my time after, but I have had a time in my life that I would call my time on the road. Like much in my life I
was more interested in the idea of having a […]

This morning i got a rare piece of snail-mail: production prints from this year’s Society of Cartographers Bulletin, of the essay that i was honoured to contribute on the subject of Open Geodata, Free Software, and Civic Information. It talks about why we wrote “Mapping Hacks”, and why UK based geo***kers are finding it hard […]

I enjoyed giving a braindump yesterday to the placemap workshop that Matthew Hockenberry is running at the MIT media lab. I decided to talk without slides or notes, but wing it using a del.icio.us linkdump made for the placemap workshop; this turned out to be a good decision, as my laptop hard drive died horribly […]

This morning my email inbox was suffused with people named Seth, almost entirely claiming not to be the Seth i was looking for. Apart from the EFF’s Seth David Schoen, who’s working on slicing through some of the “Digital Rights Management” FUD and presenting an accessible view of the field to non-geeks, and who was […]

I dropped by the launch event for the GPL 3.0 discussion draft today, hoping to catch sight of Nagarjuna, which i completely failed to do. I hung about to listen to a discussion on Digital Rights Management policy - one materially new area that the GPL 3.0 covers is DRM, a new kind of attack […]

Schuyler, Jo, and I are but simple hackers who wandered into this space. We’ve read some books, but mostly we’ve
experimented with things and come to our own conclusions. Most of the time we’ve been, well, underclued would
be kind. On occasion we’ve managed to rediscover some of the basic rules of geography. […]

Matthew Hockenberry of Place Map is part of (leading?) a spatial design workshop with lots of good content, including
Five Books to change the world (or at least how we draw it).

Jo will be speaking at their workshop next week. Exciting times for us all.