Mapping Hacks

I received an email me asking if there was a way to get a latitude and longitude from a number which his ERP calls a ‘Geocode.’
Forgive my confusion, since I thought the whole point of ‘geocoding’ was to get coordinates, or a code of some sort, which would let you specify the location of something […]

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 […]

“Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.” AJ Liebling
Jo Walsh, our co-author on Mapping Hacks, has never forgotten this. Sometimes it is annoying. I want to say “but look, you can do all this cool stuff with this free (but not open) API? Why struggle to reinvent the map […]