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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 […]

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edparsons.com.. one year on

Today is the first birthday of my blog, one year ago today I wrote my first blog entry and a lot has happened since! In the industry we have seen the Web 2.0 meets mapping developments of GMY (Google, Microsoft and Yahoo), Google Earth and the announcement of ESRI”s ArcGIS Explorer a very important product […]

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The Wikipedia Wars – what does it mean for geodata?

You may have picked up on the debate bouncing around the net on the problems Wikipedia is suffering. Wikipedia, for those back from the desert island is the community based encyclopaedia that has been seen as one of the great success stories of the web. The problems which hit the news last week have focused […]