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 […]

This past week, I had the distinct honor of giving a keynote presentation
for the Kartrevolusjonen (’map revolution’) track at SOFTWARE
2006, Norway’s premier IT conference, held annually in Oslo. The mapping
track is a new one for the conference this year, which, I think, reflects the
way in which mapping and GIS have started to creep into many […]

I enjoyed giving a braindump yesterday to the placemap workshop that Matthew Hockenberry is running at the MIT media lab. I decided to talk without slides or notes, but wing it using a del.icio.us linkdump made for the placemap workshop; this turned out to be a good decision, as my laptop hard drive died horribly […]

Rich, Jo, and I have more or less finally recovered from the MapServer User Meeting
& Open Source Geospatial 2005 conference in Minneapolis, which I must
say absolutely rocked and then some. I meant to do some blogging from the
conference but got utterly swept away by people and events — but I think Gnat
more or less captured
the […]