Monthly Archives: July 2009

Mapping Party and Mapzen Sneak Peek!

The next London mapping party is on Thursday evening, in Mayfair, the really posh bit of central London (you can tell its posh as it only has one bus route going through it.) See here for details and to signup. … Continue reading

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Map Cake

One of my favourite bits from the State of the Map conference last weekend was when they bought out the cakes: If you are familiar with London’s geographical layout, you might recognise the big green blob on the cake on … Continue reading

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State of the Map 2009 Review

Just back from StateOfTheMap, the OpenStreetMap community’s international conference. I missed the first two conferences but made it along to this year’s in Amsterdam. I skipped the “business day” on Friday and joined the conference for the Saturday and Sunday, … Continue reading

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OSM Data & Choropleth Maps

Here is the presentation I was planning to give as a “lightning talk” at the StateOfTheMap conference this weekend. However, there were more speakers than places for these sessions – and quite a few of the speakers failed to appreciate … Continue reading

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State of the Map

I’m off to the State of the Map conference in Amsterdam on Friday. It will be interesting to compare with the OSGIS UK conference a couple of weeks ago. I almost certainly won’t be live-blogging the event, thanks to data-roaming … Continue reading

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Map of UK Scenicness… and Pubs

Here’s a little something I knocked up, based on the MySociety scenic score data release last week, as well as OpenStreetMap’s data for the UK – including particularly its pubs. Basically, the vote point data was converted to a surface, … Continue reading

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