Andrew Turner
About: Co-Founder of Mapufacture
Neogeographer, Automator, Writer, Photographer, Scuba Diver, Open Source and Open Data Advocate.
Open-Source tools such as GeoPress, Mapstraction.
Enabling serendipitous events and local knowledge. Ambient information for when you're transient.
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Open-Source in Defense
--One of the more interesting presentations and discussions at BarCamp.mil was the Department of Defense CIO thoughts on a future publicized guidance...
Beijing Air Quality and Olympic Venues
--During our trip to China in December Corrie and I definitely felt the effects of the poor air quality. This has also been the discussion for over a...
Beijing Air Quality and Olympic Venues
--During our trip to China in December Corrie and I definitely felt the effects of the poor air quality. This has also been the discussion for over a...
Twitter Location API
--Ryan Sarver shares the info on Twitter's new location API. Looks really simple, and really nice. curl -u USERNAME:PASSWORD -d location="Arlingto...
Where2.0 - will you be where?
--Are you ready for it? Where2.0 starts in one week, with the free and avant-garde WhereCamp the weekend after. I think the team pulled together a gr...
PodCampDC
--A fan of "unconferences", I made it to PodCampDC this weekend. The Pod in PodCamp is not specifically about podcasting, but in general was focused ...
Stanford Lecture on Location Data and Mobile Devices
--Monday afternoon I was graciously invited by Andreas Weigend to be a guest lecturer to his graduate course on Data Mining and Recommendation system...
Mapufacture joins with FortiusOne
--I'm incredibly thrilled to share the news that Mapufacture, my company co-founded with Mikel, will be joining FortiusOne. Mikel, and Seanshare thei...
starting at Where2.0
--Mikel, Steve Coast, and I gave our 3-hour workshop yesterday talking through our work and thoughts on hacking geo sites and open data. I think it w...
Beyond Broadcasting: Mapping Public Media
--Branching out of geo-specific conferences, I attended the Beyond Broadcast conference yesterday. In it's fourth year, Beyond Broadcast is a one-day...
Business Week covers Disaster Maps
--This is a cross-post from the Mapufacture Blog, but I wanted to point out an article published in Business Week: Making Maps Work When Disaster Str...
BarCamp Mil/Humanitarian Aid in DC
--I met Jim Stogdill at FooCamp and we had quite a few discussions about the use of new and web technologies in the government, military and other la...
Cartographic Perspectives on the doom of Web Mapping
--As a member of NACIS, North American Cartographic Information Society, I get issues of the quarterly magazine Cartographic Perspectives. Typically ...
Thematic Mapping Animation
--A couple of weeks ago, Bjørn Sandvik pushed out his thematic mapping engine: http://thematicmapping.org/engine/. It's a nice and simple tool for cl...
FooCamp - humans and machines get intimate
--A *Camp reward yet again with the ability to completely inspire as well as reveal interesting cross-domain synergies. I had an interesting discussi...
Where2.0 - Augmented & Immersive Realities
--Where2.0 is amazing in watching the trends over time. The ideas that are postulated and alluded to years ago are now emerging in products, tools, a...
NetSquared Conference 2008
--Two months ago I talked about working with Alan from Think NOLA to provide tools and technologies for bringing together the quickly growing user-ge...
Green Buildings in California
--I like taking data that is thrown up on a map in a completely ad-hoc format and freeing it into an actually usable format. In this case, I recently...
Lack of Local Beers in DTW
--Draft Magazine has an article in this month's issue, "The Beer Drinker's Layover" that outlines the microbrew selection in restaurants at various a...
Agile Community Building using Social Software
--Last week, Alan Gutierrez gave an excellent presentation at the Burton Catalyst Group titled "How social networking saved New Orleans: Powered by c...
Is GoogleMaps GIS?
--In my previous post about building a KML of the California green building directory I made a very off-hand comment about how a GoogleMap does not m...
Twitter means reading fewer blogs
--Like many people I've spoken with, when I am pouring through my feed reader I tend to "Open in a new Tab" numerous links and full articles. The res...
WhereCamp
--If Where2.0 is the cutting edge of geospatial technology - at least in the consumer space, then WhereCamp is the alpha brainstorm and prototyping o...
Mapufacture joins with FortiusOne
--I’m incredibly thrilled to share the news that Mapufacture, my company co-founded with Mikel, will be joining FortiusOne. Mikel, and Seanshar...
KML - “a little less than a year”
--Well, it's official. And as reported here: "The whole process is anticipated to take less than a year." 363 days later, that statement holds true.
BarCamp Mil/Humanitarian Aid in DC
--I met Jim Stogdill at FooCamp and we had quite a few discussions about the use of new and web technologies in the government, military and other la...
Cartographic Perspectives on the doom of Web Mapping
--As a member of NACIS, North American Cartographic Information Society, I get issues of the quarterly magazine Cartographic Perspectives. Typically ...
Thematic Mapping Animation
--A couple of weeks ago, Bjørn Sandvik pushed out his thematic mapping engine: http://thematicmapping.org/engine/. It’s a nice and simple tool ...
FooCamp - humans and machines get intimate
--A *Camp reward yet again with the ability to completely inspire as well as reveal interesting cross-domain synergies. I had an interesting discussi...
Business Week covers Disaster Maps
--This is a cross-post from the Mapufacture Blog, but I wanted to point out an article published in Business Week: Making Maps Work When Disaster Str...
Agile Community Building using Social Software
--Last week, Alan Gutierrez gave an excellent presentation at the Burton Catalyst Group titled “How social networking saved New Orleans: Powere...
Beyond Broadcasting: Mapping Public Media
--Branching out of geo-specific conferences, I attended the Beyond Broadcast conference yesterday. In it’s fourth year, Beyond Broadcast is a o...
Lack of Local Beers in DTW
--Draft Magazine has an article in this month’s issue, “The Beer Drinker’s Layover” that outlines the microbrew selection in ...
Is GoogleMaps GIS?
--In my previous post about building a KML of the California green building directory I made a very off-hand comment about how a GoogleMap does not m...
Twitter means reading fewer blogs
--Like many people I’ve spoken with, when I am pouring through my feed reader I tend to “Open in a new Tab” numerous links and full...
Green Buildings in California
--I like taking data that is thrown up on a map in a completely ad-hoc format and freeing it into an actually usable format. In this case, I recently...
NetSquared Conference 2008
--Two months ago I talked about working with Alan from Think NOLA to provide tools and technologies for bringing together the quickly growing user-ge...
Stanford Lecture on Location Data and Mobile Devices
--Monday afternoon I was graciously invited by Andreas Weigend to be a guest lecturer to his graduate course on Data Mining and Recommendation system...
WhereCamp
--If Where2.0 is the cutting edge of geospatial technology - at least in the consumer space, then WhereCamp is the alpha brainstorm and prototyping o...
Where2.0 - Augmented & Immersive Realities
--Where2.0 is amazing in watching the trends over time. The ideas that are postulated and alluded to years ago are now emerging in products, tools, a...
starting at Where2.0
--Mikel, Steve Coast, and I gave our 3-hour workshop yesterday talking through our work and thoughts on hacking geo sites and open data. I think it w...
Where2.0 - will you be where?
--Are you ready for it? Where2.0 starts in one week, with the free and avant-garde WhereCamp the weekend after. I think the team pulled together a gr...
Geotag Icon
--There has been a meme floating around about the new "Geotag Icon" that was originally proposed here and now has an officious site: Geotag Icon Proj...
Super-Hyper-Local
--There is a lot of discussion, and projects, about developing solutions that address people being able to engage with HyperLocal information. In fac...
Google releases libkml 0.1 alpha
--At the OGC Technical Committee meeting today in St. Louis, Google pushed out the initial release of an open-source library for parsing and publishi...
Touring the Midwest
--As part of some continuing work with clients and heading to the OGC Technical Committee meeting to wrap up the OGC Web Services KML initiative (OWS...
We Tell Stories
--This needs to be converted into one of these. (via Google LatLong Blog)
NetSquared: New Orleans
--If you haven't already heard, there are only a couple more days (Monday, March 24, 2008) to vote for the The NetSquared Mashup projects. NetSquared...
GeoRSS Multiple Locations
--A commonly requested feature addition to GeoRSS has been multiple locations per entry. Currently, GeoRSS only adds a single geometry per RSS or Ato...
GeoPress/WP 2.4.1
--GeoPress, the WordPress plugin that makes it very easy to add location, maps, Microformats, GeoRSS, and KML to your blog, was has been neglected fo...
Google Product conference
--Over the past several years, Google has been holding an increasingly broadening "developers meetup". Two years ago it was Geo Dev Day, last year th...
Geo search in Leopard Spotlight
--Spotlight has been in Mac OS X for quite awhile now, but in general, I haven't found it very useful. However, when this tip came across at Mac OSX ...
Verizon opens the windows, catches a breeze
--via adoyle on #geo Verizon is opening its network to allow any device that passes 'qualifications' to be allowed on the Verizon cellular network. T...
ETech and Really Intimate Interfaces
--Back from ETech and consuming the inspiration and ideas that were created and demonstrated. The past several years I had considered that ETech must...
FireEagle Officially Launched
--Yahoo Brickhouse finally released their new shiny FireEagle service. If you haven't heard of it before, FireEagle is a user location brokering syst...
Heading to ETech
--Last minute opportunities made it a good idea to head the O'Reilly ETech Conference in San Diego. I've wanted to go several times in the past - ETe...
Collective Intelligence, a Camp
--My trip to San Francisco was timed to ensure attending one of the "thematic" Foo Camps - this one on Collective Intelligence, held at the GooglePle...
Heading out of Ann Arbor
--After 5 years in Michigan, unfortunately it has come time to say good-bye. At least for now. Corrie and I moved to the Detroit for her to attend ...
Maps & Timelines: Israel and Palestine Water Issues
--Last Semester I sat in on a course at the University of Michigan taught by Sandra Arlinghaus and Ann Evans titled: Maps and Timelines: The Quest fo...
Bookmarks:
OpenRouteService - OpenLS Route Service with free OSM data
Routing with user-generated, collaboratively collected free geodata. This service is based on open standards by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Thanks to OpenStreetMap.org - please donate your geographic data to openstreetmap.org!
Metropolitan Police Service - Crime mapping test site
Mingle - Agile Project Management & Team Collaboration Tool for Iterative Software Development
Mingle, the Agile project management and team collaboration tool, provides a shared workspace for your entire team. It adapts to the way project teams think and work, while supporting various flavours of Agile like XP, Scrum, Agile Hybrid.
Rails Powered by the GlassFish Application Server
This article introduces JRuby, JRuby on Rails, and the GlassFish application server. It presents a traditional Ruby-on-Rails application deployment, describes an alternative using the GlassFish application server, and explains the various options for deploying JRuby applications on GlassFish.
Staction - Group Management and Collaboration
Apache Lucene - Query Parser Syntax
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Comments
hey Andrew- I just saw your OGC presentation on Mass Market Geo Standards.. excellent! http://blog.mapufacture.com...
