WhereCamp - John McKerrell (CrowdVine)

Muki Haklay recently put together a blog post about a report that he has been working on over the past year on the evaluation of Open Street Map (O...

Multimap and OSM Maps on Nintendo Wii and DS

For some reason I’m writing these posts in reverse order of when I actually bought the devices, but a few months ago I bought a Wii. Of cours...

Multimap and OSM Maps on iPhone

I really did think that once I’d left Multimap I’d be doing lots of blog posts about all the technologies that I’d been playing a...

WhereCamp: Second day of notes

Just published my roundup of the first day. Found it pretty difficult as I hadn’t taken any notes yesterday so I’ll try taking some tod...

WhereCamp: Not Live Blogging

So we’re now halfway through WhereCamp. I decided not to live blog the sessions as there was just too much discussion going on to keep up, an...

No longer a blue badge holder

So I’ve left Multimap and I’m no longer a Microsoft employee, I have relinquished my blue badge and handed in my laptop. I’ve rea...

A weekend getting Mashed

I’m spending this weekend at Alexandra Palace at the Mashed event that’s being arranged by the BBC. I went to the similar “Hack D...

State of the Map: Weekend Review

So “State of the Map” is over for another year But it was a really good weekend! The standard of the talks was really high and the org...

State of the Map: Day 1 Review

Not really a review, just thought I’d mention that day one went really well, even without SteveC managing to get there for his keynote. My ta...

Code Monkey for Hire

A few weeks ago I handed my notice in to Multimap. My last day will be Friday 18th July. While I’ve really enjoyed my time here I’ve d...

Up all night, Mashed

So I’ve now been up basically all night (5:14am, no intention to go to bed). Unfortunately I haven’t spent the whole night hacking, in ...

Multimap and OSM Maps on Nintendo Wii and DS

For some reason I’m writing these posts in reverse order of when I actually bought the devices, but a few months ago I bought a Wii. Of cours...

Multimap and OSM Maps on iPhone

I really did think that once I’d left Multimap I’d be doing lots of blog posts about all the technologies that I’d been playing a...

Where 2.0: Activist Mapping

Erik Hersman Talking about real world uses of our work, in terms of issues. Grew up in Sudan, Kenya, now write two blogs “White african”...

Where 2.0: A Data Source to Make Mashups Correct, Complete, Relevant and Revisited

Jonathan Lowe Several companies have noticed the value in collaboration, OSM, geocommons, google base, others.. Structured databases means they can...

No longer a blue badge holder

So I’ve left Multimap and I’m no longer a Microsoft employee, I have relinquished my blue badge and handed in my laptop. I’ve rea...

State of the Map: Weekend Review

So “State of the Map” is over for another year But it was a really good weekend! The standard of the talks was really high and the org...

State of the Map: Day 1 Review

Not really a review, just thought I’d mention that day one went really well, even without SteveC managing to get there for his keynote. My ta...

Code Monkey for Hire

A few weeks ago I handed my notice in to Multimap. My last day will be Friday 18th July. While I’ve really enjoyed my time here I’ve d...

Up all night, Mashed

So I’ve now been up basically all night (5:14am, no intention to go to bed). Unfortunately I haven’t spent the whole night hacking, in ...

A weekend getting Mashed

I’m spending this weekend at Alexandra Palace at the Mashed event that’s being arranged by the BBC. I went to the similar “Hack D...

WhereCamp: Second day of notes

Just published my roundup of the first day. Found it pretty difficult as I hadn’t taken any notes yesterday so I’ll try taking some tod...

WhereCamp: Not Live Blogging

So we’re now halfway through WhereCamp. I decided not to live blog the sessions as there was just too much discussion going on to keep up, an...

Where 2.0: Google Maps for Mobile with My Location - Behind the Scenes

Adel Youssef First, what is GMM? Maps for mobile phones. “My Location” shows blue dot with big circle giving idea of how accurate your ...

Where 2.0: Lifemapper 2.0: Using and Creating Geospatial Data and Open Source Tools for the Biological Community

Aimee Stewart I work at the biodiversity institute at the university of Canvas, have background in geography, GIS, remote sensing, computing. Most ...

Where 2.0: InSTEDD: Humanitarian Collaboration Tales

Robert Kirkpatrick We come from a background, created by Larry Briliant, to create a global network for early detection and early response. InSTEDD...

Where 2.0: Digital Cities

Doug Eberhard Want to talk about digital cities. Probably heard Geoff Zeiss talk about construction industry. Here to talk about the cities that we...

Where 2.0: Veriplace: Acquiring and Sharing Consumer Location

Scott A. Hotes WaveMarket helps people to manage location. Problem of locating a handset is one of triangulation. “Acquiring the information ...

Where 2.0: Earth-Browsing: Satellite Images, Global Events and Visual Literacy

Lisa Parks Usually at academic and arts conferences. I’m a media studies scholar, interested in the use and development of satellite technolo...

Where 2.0: Openlocation.org: Location Services for Web Developers

David Troy Twittervision got a lot of attention, sorta explained twitter. A way to show the world in a new way. Similarly flickrvision got a lot of...

Where 2.0: Emerging Opportunities on the GeoWeb

Dev Khare We’ve heard a lot of good ideas over the last 2 days, there’s a lot of innovation going on in the geoweb, geomobile, geocar, ...

Where 2.0: History’s best geohacks

Chris Spurgeon I’m not a professional historian but I’m a science history junkie. Come back time and time again to the geo-scientists w...

Where 2.0: Google Maps = Google on Maps

Lior Ron Showing some observations from Where 2.0. * Slides are bad (1) * Simple ideas are good(1) * Demos are better (5) * Launches are best! (9) ...

Where 2.0: Liveblogging in a high traffic environment

Just thought I’d mention, we’re having major problems with the network at Where 2.0 today so my notes have been lagging heavily. Hopefu...

Where 2.0: Crawling the web for GeoData

Juan Gonzalez Planeteye started by looking around at the world of information available in the form of mashups. Heard from Google earlier, already ...

Where 2.0: Lessons Learned in Location-based Gaming

Jeremy Irish, Groundspeak Geocaching has been around since 2000, thousands of geocaches. Billion dollar technology to hide plastic containers in th...

Where 2.0: LocationAware: Standardizing a Geolocation API in the Browser

Ryan Sarvar locationaware.org We were here last time doing a BoF session. Now here we are on stage presenting. Making an announcement which will ho...

Where 2.0: AfricaMap

This is a “Birds of a Feather” - more of a discussion on a subject: Ben Lewis, Infrastructure for Collaboration Ben provides consulting...

Where 2.0: Live Blogging Update

So I’ve been live blogging the talks all day. Has been pretty difficult at times and also a little stressful. I was wondering whether I shoul...

Where 2.0: DIY Drones: An Open Source Hardware and Software Approach to Making “Minimum UAVs”

Chris Anderson, Wired Talking about a hobby gone horribly wrong Attempt to be a geek and a father, doing fun things with children. Got some model...

Where 2.0: Global Weather Visualization: Utilizing Sensor Networks to Monetize Realtime Data

Michael Ferrari We try to utilise as much data as possible. This is not your father’s weather forecast. Weather presenters are basically pres...

Where 2.0: Bringing Spatial Analysis to your Mashups

Jeremy Bartley, ESRI What is ESRI’s role in the geoweb? GIS is all about the fat tail. They have all that data but it’s not really acce...

Where 2.0: Navigating the Future: Mapping in The Long Tail

Pat McDevitt Worked in “University cap and gown” as a student. Seasonal business. Would go out and deliver these and return them later....

Where 2.0: What about the inside?

Mok Oh, EveryScape [Video] 3D imagery of time square. Similar to street view. “The Real World. Online” * Photorealistic Immersive Inter...

Where 2.0: A NeoGeographical Approach to Aerial Image Acquisition and Processing

Jeffrey Johnson, David Riallant We have a background of GIS and remote sensing. We were very excited when we had virtual globes as it gives us new ...

Where 2.0: Indexing Reality: Creating a Mine of Geospatial Information

Anthony Fassero, Earthmine We all agree that there’s a renaissance happening for mapping, an explosion of online geo-spatial platforms that a...

Where 2.0: Mirror World: Using MMOs for Real World Mapping

W. James Au “What I learned as a Virtual World chronicler” My main gig is talking about second life on my own blog “new world not...

Where 2.0: Creating a Programmable GPS with BUG

Peter Semmelhack Hands in the air, mainly software developers in this room. We’ve been talking a lot about mashups. Mashups is generally soft...

Where 2.0: Monetizing Maps & Mashups

Greg Sterling Tiffany Chester: Specialises in geotargetting advertising Ian White: urban mapping, license data Jay Brice: skyhook wireless: locatio...

Where 2.0: The Business Case for Simulation, Gaming & Virtual Worlds

Denis Browne Intro to Matrix… SAP has been around for 35 years. Taking you through what we’ve done for a customer Implenia. 3D renderi...

Where 2.0: Fire Eagle

Tom Coates “Hello Everyone” Yahoo! Brickhouse, environment for startup type projects in Yahoo! Small teams working on projects that are...

Where 2.0: Convergence of Architectural and Engineering Design and Location Technology

Geoff Zeiss Talking about the construction industry, the gaming industry, geo-spatial. There’s things happening in these sectors that are imp...

Where 2.0: Poly9

Greg Sadetsky CEO of Poly9, startup based in quebec city. Been doing custom mapping applications for 3 years. Flagship product is FreeEarth. 3D web...

Where 2.0: Modelling Crowds

Paul M. Torrens Why would you model crowds? Important factor of modern life. Some of the most important tipping points. Evacuation, emergencies. Un...

Where 2.0: Loopt - A Better Mobile Location Landscape

Sam Altman Last year concentrated on our social network mobile applications. Can share your location, get alerts when you’re near people, geo...

Where 2.0 - Live Blogging

As you’ve probably noticed I’ve decided to have a go at live blogging the talks at Where 2.0. These notes are taken live so there’...

Where 2.0: Google - GIS Data Comes to the GeoWeb

John Hanke Fourth Where 2.0 I’ve been to. At their best mapping and geography make the world seem like a slightly smaller place. Opportunity ...

Watch my Journey to Where 2.0

I’ve managed to knock something up that will let you track my journey from Liverpool in the UK over to San Francisco in the states. I do know...

Three month update

Wow, before starting this blog post I thought I’d check the date on my previous post. I haven’t written anything in nearly three months...

Apple invents iPod maps - podmaps?

The other day, a friend sent through a link to an interesting “new” technology that Apple have applied for a patent for - podmaps. Rea...

Ed Parsons gets heavy, Fake SteveC gets heavier

Some interesting and amusing posts have shown up over the weekend that I just couldn’t go without mentioning. Ed Parsons posted an article ab...

Mate’s great band releasing new single

Just a quick one to mention a friend’s band that have a new single out this week. Parka are a great band originating from Glasgow but curren...

New version of OSMify bookmarklet

OSMify I’ve put together a new version of my OSMify bookmarklet. The main reason for doing this is because the old version is linking to the ...

OS releases OpenSpace API

I was invited to attend a private “hack day” at the offices of the Ordnance Survey on Friday last week for the launch of their new Open...

Simple Static Maps API, similar to Google Charts

I’ve been subscribed to the 24 ways feed again this year. They’ve had some really interesting stuff I might make use of sometime such a...

Visiting Yahoo!

I paid a visit to the Yahoo! offices in London last week, having been invited to a “Yahoo! Developer Summit”. I was intrigued to find o...

First Liverpool Mapping Party a Success

We held the first Liverpool mapping party over the weekend and I’m glad to say it went pretty well. Though we didn’t get as many new pe...

Recent Mapping Activities

I thought it was about time I mentioned mapping in my blog again. I’ll start by mentioning a recent development with the Multimap Open API. E...

Wedding and Honeymoon Over, Married Life Begins

After taking numerous attempts to write this blog post and going into far too much detail I’ve decided to trim it down to a few paragraphs, I...

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