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 […]

Despite the fact I understood no more than one word in 12, I enjoyed FOSSGIS.de 2007, a long month ago now, a great deal. The “Freie Geodaten” movement here in Germany is the most active and developed I have seen. I spent an enjoyable afternoon talking with Jochen Topf about everything under the Sun related […]

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 […]