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 […]

The recent UK Geospatial Mashups event hosted by the Ordnance Survey provoked in me some reflections on business models for the production of open geodata which I have belatedly written down.
It was good to see old friends at the event - Mikel holding it up for GeoRSS, Raj on the stump for the new WFS-basic […]

Public Geodata is sending another Open Letter this time to Ministers in the Council before the conciliation and third reading process on the proposed INSPIRE Directive establishing a spatial data infrastructure in Europe. If you are in Europe it is still very much worth signing the petition and also trying to write to your national […]

Public Geodata published an Open Letter regarding the INSPIRE Directive to the Members of the ENVI committee in the European Parliament this morning. I got to sleep after dawn after hitting ’send’ - collaborating with people in Europe from an East Coast base means a lot of very late nights or very early mornings.
When i […]