Mapping Hacks

I’m looking forward to being in London on March 17th for Open Knowledge 1.0. This is one day event is on the theme of “Atomisation and Commercial Opportunity” for free, collectively produced data in different domains, including panels on open media, open geodata and open scientific and civic information.

The open geodata panel this year has a great lineup who should have a lot to say to one another:

• Ed Parsons, who resigned as CTO of the Ordnance Survey late last year, and whose increasing blog-warmth about open geodata has been great to watch,
• Charles Arthur, one of the founders and principal actor behind the Guardian´s Free Our Data initiative
• Steve Coast, founder of the OpenStreetmap.org project

The rest of the OK1 lineup is pretty stellar, too, including Peter Murray-Rust on open chemical data - more people will remember him from the foundational XML-dev and early semantic web work - John Sheridan from the Office of Public Sector Information, who’s involved in doing spatial RDF projects there, and Zoe Young of the transmission.cc film distribution network, whose metadata working group i´ve been kibitzing on.

While these things are more about the crowd than the sessions, I hope we´ve found a good balance. If you’re near London and this tweaks your interest, then please register now to avoid disappointment.

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