WhereCamp - Chaitanya Kuber (CrowdVine)

Federating open geodata Sean Gorman of Fortouis One A wide variety of crowd sourced geo data pools are starting to collect. how do we join these an...

sotm 2008 - mscape

HP Labs is HP’s advanced research labs. Pervasive Media Project. Media being delivered directly into the fabric of your every dau lives. Medi...

SOTM 2008 - Ed Parsons

Ed Parsons GeoSpatial Technologist What Mapmaker is and isn’t? Attempt to clear the air, and see if we can work together better. Behind the ...

SOTM 2008 - Steve Coast

Keynote Over a 100 attendees from 19 countries and over 30 sessions organised, 13 lightning talks in one weekend. It has taken nearly a year in the...

SOTM 2008 - day one review

Two themes stood out for me on day one. Firstly, there was the range of talks from OSM folks about the status of OSM Mapping in their country. Boli...

sotm 2008 - Ordnance Survey - Nasty Ugley Muck

John Carpenter What OS does and how we do it ? UK is full of really weird names. Places like idle, sheep, rake etc. How do this names end up in the...

sotm 2008 - open street map foundation

OpenStreetMap does not actually exist, it is not a formal entity. Who do you call ( SteveC ? ), Who do you give money to if there is no organisatio...

sotm 2008 - wikitravel

Wikipedia meets lonley planet and was Launched in July 2003 printed guides are required to cater to the audience does not always have connectivity ...

sotm 2008 - AND

AND — automotive naviagtion data The only independent mapping data supplier. other than OSM. AND is betting on all devices being connected ...

sotm 2008 - lightning talks

State of OSM Japan Language, translation and support services were lacking, but are now up and running and Japan’s OSM coverage is increasing...

sotm 2008 - nestoria

Nestoria uses OSM for its Maps as well as Google Maps. Living with Dragons project uses OSM and is sponsored by Nestoria. Original sponsors of Ma...

sotm 2008 - osm ireland

OSM’s presence in Ireland began last year. Covergae is increasing everyday. Coast line, all motorways, almost all national roads, rivers, lak...

sotm 2008 - use of crowdsourced data in a commercial api

Multimap has tried using 4 various crowd source data sets and integrating it with their api. Wikipedia data is hard to work with. As you need to im...

sotm 2008 - keynote

Robert Bar — KeyNote Social Geographer since the early 1970s interested in where people live, how they live and where they worked? we seemed ...

waiting for SOTM 2008 to start

Morning. People are starting filter in to the main hall for the State of the Map keynote. Expected keynote speaker (checkout SteveC on Twitter) is ...

SOTM 2008

Just arrived at State of the Map Venue. Looking forward to proceedings in the morning.

iPhone 3G

For the first time in my life I decided to join the masses in queues across london in an attempt to acquire a iPhone 3G on launch day. Result : E...

onwards and forwards

I will be moving on from Multimap to Expedia. I am finishing up at Multimap next week and starting up at Expedia the week after. Its an interesting...

Set a Guinness World Record

Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 ho...

Mashed 08

Multimap (and Microsoft) are partners of the BBC Hack Weekend called ‘Mashed 08‘. For information about how to get tickets head on over...

where camp 2008 - Geo Privacy

Mapufacture’s take on Privacy about your current location is to stuff. Show what you want to show to who you want to show it to. Similar take...

where camp 2008 - community standards

GeoRSS So micro formats, pico formats, kml 3, georss 2.0 etc etc. Whats the future of micro/pico formats? How can we as a community contribute to O...

where camp 2008 - Is 3D shit

Do we need 3D? Are we wasting our time ? What are the main scenarios of monetisation? Aren’t we just back to where we were in the early ninet...

where camp 2008 - xrosspath

We all have a path in life. This path crosses with those paths of other people and events. We all have unique paths but they intersect with other p...

where camp 2008 - Searching the GeoWeb

Organize the world’s geo-reference information and make it useful and accessible. Google has indexed various GeoRSS and GeoTagged data availa...

where camp 2008 - Maps + Community

What tools are people using to find out about events based on location? upcoming.yahoo.net is one big tool that everyone in this room seems to use....

where camp 2008 - kicked off

Where camp has kicked off. Discussing Time as the added dimension to visualize geo-spatial data in. Some interesting ideas being presented and disc...

where camp 2008 - googleplex

WhereCamp 2008 starts today at Google Plex. I am really excited about a whole bunch of people and having discussions on varied Geo related topics. ...

loki image badge

Only if I could figure out how to put in my blog sidebar or header… might need to buy the custom css add on or something…

tuesday, 10am

No new iPhone announcement. Looks like no iPhone purchase on this US trip

focation.com

focation.com, the first non US based location startup we saw and heard about today at where 2.0 Great to see the guys here and wish them well with ...

apple iphone sold out…

Much to my disappointment, I was just told by a friend that both Apple UK and US stores are showing the iPhone as currently being unavailable. Sux!...

@where 2.0

Finally got to the conference hotel. Checked in and now doing some last minute research. Looking forward to Tutorials tomorrow. The GeoDjango folk ...

Where 2.0

I am heading to Where 2.0 with some guys from work (Multimap.com) and really looking forward to rub shoulders with some Mapping folk, exchange idea...

Google Docs Presentation

So Google recently announced support for making presentation using Google Docs. I gave it a very quick whirl and decided that the capabilities avai...

google embeded maps

Google finally released their Embeded maps implementation. When a user searches for anything using Google Maps and then clicks on the Link button (...

state of the map

I will be heading to The State of the Map conference in mid July. Here’s a link to its site for more information. Update: Didn’t get m...

website of the week

Well well, Multimap.com has just been marked as the website of the week on Times Online by Mark Frary. You can read that article here.

eden project

On a recent trip to Cornwall, England we visited the eden project. Well worth checking out if you are down that way. Here’s a photo I took.

unofficial iPhone add

click here to view this one minute addvertisement. This is another add which has no mention of how cool it is, how it will set your world alight (a...

first post from MarsEdit

This is my first post using MarsEdit, a application for OS X which allows blog posts without having to log into the blog dashboard.

new iPhone adds

Now I am no fan of marketing, but as some would say, I am a big of fan of all things apple. I am sure everyone has seen the new iphone adds by now....

Night lights

Colm, friend and colleague at Multimap, took this picture in Italy recently : night lights Nice one mate!

Perl debugger tip

Richard Keen discovered (so what if it was in an online verion of the Programming Perl) a neat little Perl debugger hook that can be placed in code...

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Testing the long tails first test

Web entrepreneurs have been relying on the Chris Anderson's long tail hypothesis even before he published his ideas, so it's good to see that the academic community has begun to study the effect and test for its existence.

Protocol Buffers: Google's Data Interchange Format

At Google, our mission is organizing all of the world's information. We use literally thousands of different data formats to represent networked messages between servers, index records in repositories, geospatial datasets, and more. Most of these formats

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Erik Hersman:

Thanks, and let's definitely grab some time this weekend to continue talking.