Mapping Hacks

I enjoyed this talk at FOSS4G, World Digital Library: Designing a Multi-lingual Geographic Search Interface. It was given by an Human-Computer Interaction specialist who offered a snarky commentary on search interfaces designed by programmers for geographers.
Considering the insurmountable opportunities, we come up with some “pretty darn flighty ideas” about how spatial/temporal data search interfaces might […]

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 […]

A month or two ago I was dropped into the middle of a rather intense discussion about the development of simple catalog interfaces and models for geospatial metadata exchange. The conversation heated up on the OSGeo geodata committee mailing list, and most of it flew right over my head . o O (”CSW ebRIM”? - […]