Mapping Hacks

Rogers Cadenhead just did an aricle for Wired on All Google’s Roads Lead to Kansas. I have a little quote in the article about selection ‘choices’ in imagery, pointing out how Google Map’s uses a gamed day image of the former Candlestick park, but the Oakland stadium is depicted as a near ghost town.

Simon St. Laurent, our editor, just sent a note suggesting we might want to
use our site to announce our new book Google Maps Hacks.

What a good idea…it is rather too easy to finish writing and then to be done
with that! But that doesn’t let you our loyal reader (hi mom!) know about what we’ve […]

Schuyler, Jo, and I are but simple hackers who wandered into this space. We’ve read some books, but mostly we’ve
experimented with things and come to our own conclusions. Most of the time we’ve been, well, underclued would
be kind. On occasion we’ve managed to rediscover some of the basic rules of geography. […]

Michael Shiloh of Making Things just posted to the dorkbot SF list a bit about ‘Famous Dorkbotters.’

I saved the message to read later, assuming it would be about people doing cool stuff who I would want to read about. But no! It was about Mapping Hacks being one of the Amazon Editors’ Picks […]

This time in BoingBoing… David Pescovitz wrote a stunningly nice review. Thanks David!

Jo and Schuyler and I have been running about, There was the Open Source
Geospatial conference, and then Where 2.0, and then I was on vacation… so
apologies about the shortage of posts.

With that said, this is a kind review of Mapping Hacks.

Simon sent us this
review of Mapping Hacks by a fellow blogger. Apparently, they
really liked the cover! We also got a nice reader
review on Amazon. Check it out!

Directions Magazine, one of the most respected professional GIS
publications around today, has offered up a glowing
review of Mapping Hacks:

Part of the value of this tome (it’s more than 500 pages) is the accessible
descriptions of technology. Want to understand how wardriving works? Check page
69. Need to understand projections? That’s page 120. The discussions are clear,
and personable, […]

At least, it is now Available on Safari. Safari is an O’Reilly subscription service that provides access to O’Reilly (and selected other publishers) books online.

The deal is that you can pre-purchase your hard copy of Mapping Hacks
and read it Right Now! online via Safari.

It is so exciting it makes me want to have another […]

Is a class at the Stanford University Digital Arts Center taught by
Amy Franceschini. She brings
in guests to rant about nifty things (next session they are looking
at wifi and building cantennas).
Through our friend Mike Liebhold I got the change to do my spiel.
Schuyler insists that I post my slides from the talk.
If you are daft […]