Mapping Hacks

“Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.” AJ Liebling
Jo Walsh, our co-author on Mapping Hacks, has never forgotten this. Sometimes it is annoying. I want to say “but look, you can do all this cool stuff with this free (but not open) API? Why struggle to reinvent the map […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]