Mapping Hacks

I am the only one of my friends regularly able to walk past a map shop without skipping a beat. And i’d almost managed to walk past “Mostly Maps” in Hay, before doubletaking at what was in the corner of my eye, rushing back and pressing my nose to the window like an urchin on […]

Ed Parsons offers an upbeat description of the Open Geospatial Consortium’s “mass market” / interoperability process. As a member of the geolumpenproletariat, I spent some time over the last month or so attempting to engage with the WFS Simple public development process marshalled by our friend Raj Singh. I backed away from it a couple […]

In Mapping Hacks, the book, Schuyler wrote a program to convert a track log in a text file into a Shapefile.  We mentioned, perhaps optimistically, that a version to convert a gpx (a GPS XML exchange format) track lot to a shapefile would be on the web site.
Optimism while writing is a good, and a […]

The revolution will not be televised, and the revolution will not come from the creeping crudge of ‘The Internet of Things.’ I’m as excited as Bruce Sterling to have technology help me to keep track of my crap. You won’t need to look for your shoes, you’ll be able to Google Your […]

Harry Beck’s schematic map of London’s Tube network is constantly cited as a design classic and a cartographic inspiration. I am one of many people who’ve made a “spatially accurate” version of the Tube map for kicks.
ChrisDodo pointed us at an interesting spin on the idea - a schematic map of the UK motorway network. […]