Mapchester – The open source mapping movement continues

The effort to create a copyright free streetmap continues next month with a dedicated weekend of mapping the streets of Manchester. Sounds like it’s going to be a great weekend .. It is going to take a while, but I firmly believe one day they will be national open source datasets alongside the existing closed …

The Search for Geospatial Attention

As a regular listener to Steve Gillmors’ Gillmor Gang podcast, I have become familiar with the concept of Attention, which is now entering the technology mainstream with a good writeup in MIT’s Technology Review Attention as a concept is a realisation that with the massive increase in content on the internet, both professional and “consumer” generated, …

UK Mashups?

Following a comment by Charles Arthur (yes he of the Free Our Data Campaign) that there were no UK based mapping mashups, I did a bit of a search and came up with this page which lists at least 22 mashups in the UK, and yes they all contain Ordnance Survey data licensed through partners. …

MapSat plans revealed

After a number of years planning, we finally got round to signing the contract to build a new micro satellite dedicated to the needs of the Ordnance Survey. MapSat will be built over the next 18 months by Guildford Space Projects, and launched in 2009 using a COSMOS launch vehicle. MapSat will feature a 2m …

How much do you know about Apple?

Thanks to Leah for pointing out this Quiz to me, a great way to finish off a heavy week. So I got 9/10 but them I’m a confessed Apple geek – Leah on the other hand guessed and got 6 !!!