Monthly Archives: August 2009

Education Profiling with an Open Source Geostack

Posted on 2009-08-27 by Oliver

I was in Manchester yesterday for the first day of the Royal Geographical Society annual conference. I gave a talk at the session called “New Urban Geography: Evolving Area Classification for Socio-Spatial Generalisation” which was convened by my boss Dr … Continue reading →

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OSM gets Isle of Man Government Data

Posted on 2009-08-25 by Oliver

Dan Karran writes that he has received an official, recent (2007) dataset from the Isle of Man government, comprising of a 1:25000 raster with tourist points of interest (POIs), and detailed satellite imagery from 2001, with a licence suitable for … Continue reading →

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Open Plaques

Posted on 2009-08-19 by Ollie

The Open Plaques project, currently in alpha, is aiming to catalogue, photograph and georeference the numerous “blue plaques” scattered around London and elsewhere in the UK. Blue plaques generally mark the house where someone famous lived, or some other event … Continue reading →

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OpenStreetMap Road Coverage in England

Posted on 2009-08-12 by Oliver

Peter Reed has been doing some excellent work comparing the Department of Transport measured road lengths by English county, and comparing them with the total lengths of roads in OpenStreetMap. This has only recently become possible to do with spatial … Continue reading →

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