Britain will be #Open for geoconferencing in 2013
In case you hadn’t heard a crowd of geogeeks have climbed mountains, written proposals, garnered support, tweeted their hearts out, started a pledge, created campaigning web sites and convinced the...
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Get the eff out of FOSS4G
Free – thanks to Brad Stabler http://www.flickr.com/photos/bstabler/ This week I spent 2 days at the OSGeo UK Chapter event in Nottingham. OSGIS 2012 was a fun combination of workshops and...
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An avalanche of Openness will be on display in Maptember
It has been ages since I last sat down to write a post. That is because I have been massively busy working on client stuff, particularly with the great team at Astun, and chairing FOSS4G has been a lot...
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Are you up for Maptember?
It’s the beginning of Maptember, who could have imagined this cacophony of mapping events in the UK over 30 days? Ken Field suggests in his blog that there may be too many events competing for the same...
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What are you doing wasting your time with that little company?
A couple of months ago I was at an industry event in the UK with a colleague from Astun Technology (I’m a strategic adviser to the board at Astun and have been helping them to grow their business). We...
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Open Systems, will we ever agree on what we mean by “open”?
Just before Christmas, I stumbled on this post on Open Systems on the ESRI UK blog. My immediate response was to splutter at the irony of ESRI trying to cash in on the wave of interest in Open, who are...
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What the hack?
It seems that barely a week goes by without some organisation (frequently linked to the public sector or an NGO) running a hack to address the challenges of poverty, the environment, sanitation,...
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There is no such thing as a free lunch
There is no such thing as a free lunch, someone else is paying This might be a bit of a long and windy road type post, so bare with me as I try to work my way through this topic. If you are impatient,...
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Ooooh – a round thing with spokes!
I picked up on the twitter conversation between my friend James Rutter and folk at CycleStreets about an application to Ordnance Survey’s GeoVation program for “a modern interface to UK wide planning...
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A location grid is not an address
This is going to be a longish post if you don’t care about addresses this might be one to skip. This post was prompted by reading Mike Dobson’s review of What3Words, shortly afterwards Rollo Home...
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