James Thornett The views and opinions expressed here are my own and not those of the BBC, my employer.
Posts Tagged ‘openstreetmap’
Mapping the Caribbean
A £10 pledge and one hour spent mapping features from Yahoo aerial imagery will give you a 60-1 shot of being sent to a Caribbean island on behalf of OpenStreetMap to complete a map and spread the open-source word. Well, it might do. The deadline is 30th September and 44 people have already signed up [...]
The State of the Map Conference 2008
The second international State of the Map conference from OpenStreetMap takes place in Limerick, Ireland on 12th-13th July, 2008. Ed Parsons won’t be attending but recommends everyone else does so if you are interested take a look at the schedule. Lots of useful information on openstreetmap for those that are going this year.
Geo-ify Your Web Site (10.30am – 12)
Mikel Maron is up after the coffee break to talk about Illuminated Hacks. However, my battery reckons it has 14 minutes of life left and I appear to be sitting far away from any potential power supply… damn and oops. …We’re back with power. An interesting talk from Mikel on a number of different hacks [...]
Geo-ify Your Web Site (8.30am – 10am)
Monday morning and I’m signed up for a session called Geo-ify your web site. What does this mean? Good question. Some interesting stuff from Andrew Turner about microformats and embedding location tagging within the html of web content. Then onto Mapstraction and its use in providing efficient and effective access to a variety of mapping [...]
