Mapping Hacks

I’ve been running around saying ‘when is the next where’ for a bit now.     I sort of assumed it was an established meme that I was jumping on the back of, looking for uh, seconds…but a glance at Google finds zero hits for “when is the next where,” and a grep of the […]

Our friend Mike Liebhold is on this http://buildwebsites.net/blogs/michigan-web-design/8590/
It is an interesting podcast in which fun things are said…read the link, listen, have fun.

This week, Michael Cross of the Guardian and Free Our Data has been in high dudgeon about the messed up situation for street addressing and postal code data in the UK. Licensing costs are set to double next year, for the use of the data needed to do postcode geocoding from the Royal Mail. Applications […]

We wrote about http://www.weatherbonk.com in _Google Maps Hacks_. At the time it was sort of primitive-weather on a map. Now it is much cooler with version 2.

The recent UK Geospatial Mashups event hosted by the Ordnance Survey provoked in me some reflections on business models for the production of open geodata which I have belatedly written down.
It was good to see old friends at the event - Mikel holding it up for GeoRSS, Raj on the stump for the new WFS-basic […]