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 […]

During my recent month on the circuit I had the chance to run a couple of open mapping tools talk/workshops; I need to write up a narrative or schematic soon. One tool I showed a lot of and have become increasingly impressed with its solidity and functional simplicity, is JOSM, the Java-based offline OpenStreetmap editor […]

There’s a lot of talk, in this part of London, of various regeneration projects which will drastically alter the area. In the shorter term, they propose to have an “Olympic Park” which will replace a fairly run-down, light industrial part of Hackney Wick and Tower Hamlets.

I found this article, on how local businesses are being […]