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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 […]

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Open Source mapping in the press

Once again the issue of “free” and Open Source mapping has been raised by the Guardian , as always a number of good points are made along with a few Gilligan-isms.. The main thrust of the piece is about the potential of open source, community produced mapping data with interviews with representatives of the Mappinghacks […]

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A free lunch anyone ?

The ongoing and mostly ill-informed debate on the funding of digital geographical information today hit the national press with a article published by Michael Cross in the Guardian . Now I have been a great fan of Cross’s often insightful journalism in the past but today’s article is full of errors and misrepresentation of the […]