Mapping Hacks

It sometimes seems as if I’ve been reading the same Galileo article on the BBC News website for the last three years; only the delivery date changes each year. I missed this summer’s news of the collapse of the “consortium of consortiums” that was selected to build, launch and run the European-backed alternative to the […]

This week, Michael Cross of the Guardian and Free Our Data has been in high dudgeon about the messed up situation for street addressing and postal code data in the UK. Licensing costs are set to double next year, for the use of the data needed to do postcode geocoding from the Royal Mail. Applications […]

I hear from Tracey P. Lauriault of the launch of the Civic Access project. This is a Canadian effort whose full title is Citizens for Open Access to Civic Information and Data. I like the pragmatic nature of their mission:
Encourage institutions to share data, start a working group to build technologies that make data accessible, […]

I was talking with Marc about a mutual friend who had moved from Bernal Heights in San Francisco, to Jamaica Plain near Boston. I remarked how much JP had reminded me of Bernal when i visited there. He said, “JP is one of those connecting neighbourhoods for Bernal Heights… Hackney is one too, i think”. […]