Mapping Hacks

“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 […]

For the last couple of years, Jared has been making an effort to collect and freely redistribute 1:24K DRGs - hand-drawn topographic maps - published by the US Geological Survey. He has finally cracked, bought the complete set from a USGS reseller, and is holding the geodata to ransom until he can recoup what […]

Recently there has been a new level of licensing discussion for open geodata. Daniel Faivre has been socialising the Public Geodata License, a draft of which he worked on years ago and which is being picked up by a group in Canada, in particular. The PGL is very strongly modelled on GPL v2.
Richard Fairhurst wrote […]