Mapping Hacks

Openness, freedom of inquiry, access to knowledge…one would like to posit
a growing movement towards all things good. Or perhaps the internet just allows
us to hide in our open ghettos…in any event, the Berlin Declaration
on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities says the right things-perhaps in a bit more
formal language than that […]

Schuyler and I have some in progress demos for Google Maps Hacks here.

Rogers Cadenhead just did an aricle for Wired on All Google’s Roads Lead to Kansas. I have a little quote in the article about selection ‘choices’ in imagery, pointing out how Google Map’s uses a gamed day image of the former Candlestick park, but the Oakland stadium is depicted as a near ghost town.

Today, the Proposed INSPIRE Directive on establishing a spatial data infrastructure in Europe began the process of second reading in the European Parliament. Within one to three months, INSPIRE’s provisions could become law.
Many European citizens and small businesses will be negatively affected by a license, copyright and protection oriented policy towards sharing geographic data inside […]

This past week, I had the distinct honor of giving a keynote presentation
for the Kartrevolusjonen (’map revolution’) track at SOFTWARE
2006, Norway’s premier IT conference, held annually in Oslo. The mapping
track is a new one for the conference this year, which, I think, reflects the
way in which mapping and GIS have started to creep into many […]

Dima Diall and some other folks from the Urban Tapestries
project have converted a toy car to be an air quality and CO2
mapping maniac. Complete with GPS, WiFi, remotesensors…all the best
stuff.

NASA just did a study to determine the value of geospatial data standards. They compared two projects, one
that used standards and one that was proprietary, using a big long methodology that determined that
standards are a good thing.

“One way to express this result is by saying that for every $100 million spent on projects based […]

Where do neighborhoods start, and stop? Where is Tribecca, SoHo, SOMA? The
Neighborhood Project “is creating a map of city neighborhoods based on the collective opinions of internet users.”

They collect addresses and claimed neighborhood from Craigslist posts, and people filling out a form, and then
do clever things.

“This is an experiment in collective knowledge” so […]

Today, representatives of various Free and Open Source geospatial software
projects, including MapServer, GDAL/OGR, PostGIS, GRASS, GeoServer, GeoTools,
Mapbender, Ka-Map and several others met in Chicago today to found the Open
Source Geospatial Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to
supporting and promoting the development of F/OSS GIS. Following on the heels
of the controversial “MapServer Foundation” announcement prompted by
Autodesk’s release […]

David Fawcett read
a New York Times article on Shifty camera stores in Brooklyn. And a friend of his
had a bit of a dodgy time with one of them.

There is a fellow who rides
his bike around Brooklyn taking pictures of Camera stores, and so David
figured it would make sense to link image with map. […]