Harry Wood

Welcome to Harry Wood's website. The blog is probably more interesting than the rest of this site... and the blog isn't very interesting so what does that tell you?

Recent blog posts:

Some new repton3 maps
Peter McElwee emailed me saying “Thanks for releasing Repton 3, have lots of fun but the wife isn’t so pleased. Anyway have made two levels of my own, would be great to have your comments” So you can now download his ... read more 03/24/2012 13:24
Giving up twitter for lent
I’ve decided to give up Twitter and IRC for 40 days and 40 nights. This is quite a big deal for me. It remains to be seen how well it works, but I’ve survived the first couple of days. @harry_wood has gone quiet! Somehow twitter has ... read more 02/23/2012 11:22
My SOTM11 talk
We had the annual “State of the map” OpenStreetMap conference a month ago. This was in Denver. I had a choice between this or the more sensible carbon-effiecent location of Vienna for SOTM-EU a few months earlier. I decided to go to ... read more 10/10/2011 02:28
Society of Cartographers Plymouth
A couple of weeks ago I was in Plymouth for the Society of Cartographers Annual Conference. Lots of interesting talks and a fun and friendly atmosphere, particularly during the evening entertainment: pub quiz, boat trip and rum cocktails. [update: ... read more 09/24/2011 11:17
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team talk for Article25
Last week I gave a talk about humanitarian mapping with OpenStreetMap. This was at an event organised by Article25, sponge network, and RIBA knowledge communities. Download slides as an OpenOffice .odp file Slides on slideshare.net Or here are the ... read more 08/13/2011 13:58

OpenStreetMap diary:

Mapping while on holiday in Brazil
I've just arrived in Washinton D.C. now, but that's another story. I've been away in Brazil having a nice holiday, ... read more 04/29/2012 22:07
Cheshire Cheese pub meet-up a while back
I didn't organise a London OpenStreetMap meet-up in a while. The last one was in ye olde cheshire cheese last month. As usual ... read more 04/10/2012 16:00
The blue posts meet-up. Plus next one Thursday
The next London pub meet-up will be this Thursday at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese. Last time we had a pub meet-up at the blue posts, ... read more 03/13/2012 09:30
geomob, geodrinks, MySociety, and pub tonight
The London OpenStreetMap pub meet-up is such a recent event it didn't happen yet! but it will happen TONIGHT. Now let's work ... read more 02/29/2012 02:40
Holborn pub & Weybridge mapping + geomob tonight
Last week we had a pub meet-up in Holborn shortly followed by a real mapping party involving real mapping, over in Weybridge In ... read more 02/16/2012 10:16