Mapping Hacks

I have been perhaps a bit remiss in not mentioning this here sooner, but Mikel Maron and I are currently engaged in facilitating a series of mapping workshops all across India, informally known as Free Map India 2008. So far we have met with Indictrans in Pune, and organized two-day workshops focused on seeding OpenStreetMap […]

SFGate had a nice article on how various mapping services and device manufacturers have reacted to the MacArthur Maze incident.
Brady Forrest, your Where 2.0 program chair, and Jeremy Kreitler, director of product management for Yahoo Maps,  were both quoted.  I love what Jeremy said “‘We want to react to this and put a fix in […]

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 […]

I set off for Where 2.0 with some trepidation, but it was largely unjustified; and it was chance to see many old friends, make a few new friends, and to see many of them doing well out of the conference. I left with my head spinning, and these notes are what came out the top […]

Quite a few of Mapping Hacks’ friends and contributors are on the speaker list at O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference this year. When this year’s Where was first announced, I was uninspired by the strapline, “Where’s the Value?”; the ORA organisers have since done a fair bit to change the tone, and re-emphasise open source and […]

While we were working on Mapping Hacks I had the opportunity to chat with MapQuest
about what developers would like to be able to create their own applications. None
of us were thinking ‘Mash ups’ at the time, just maps for people’s pages. The challenge seemed to be how they would be able to offer […]

Rich is curating a geo-hacking themed evening event for PlaNetwork, a kind of optimistic theory organisation who run regular conferences in the Bay Area, and sometimes in NYC, with a social-environmental-change angle. It’s on Sunday Feb 2nd 2006 at 111 Townsend Street in SF.
The event that Rich has been putting together is called GEO MAPPING […]