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:

Talks and thoughts on OpenStreetMap mapping parties
(photo Copyright All rights reserved by SINFOGEO)A few weeks ago we had a big OpenStreetMap conference, the annual “State Of The Map”. This year it was in sun-baked Girona. “State Of The Map 2010 felt like a coming together of all ... read more 07/24/2010 13:21
Ruby code for converting to UK Ordnance Survey coordinate systems from WGS84?
Ruby code for converting to UK Ordnance Survey coordinate systems from WGS84? It’s one of those things I’d assumed would be a five minute search -> cut-n-paste job. But no. Well now you can cut & paste from here. Using Proj4 and ... read more 06/29/2010 08:42
Paul Downey and London Wiki Wednesdays
Last Wednesday was London wiki wednesday again. We struggled a bit with organisation this time. The usual to’ing-and-fro’ing around finding sponsors and hosts was confounded by a problem with the website. SocialText foolishly switched it ... read more 05/10/2010 10:22
Aid Information Challenge
I’m at the Aid Information Challenge day watching the final hack presentations. This seems to be part of a series of hacking events happening at the Guardian offices, following on from rewiredstate National Hack the Government day (where I ... read more 04/10/2010 11:06
placr
For the past few months I’ve been doing some work for placr, and this week I’ve joined the team full-time. I’m working on a new transport related API *, with some interesting geolocation and realtime dimensions to it. Currently ... read more 03/23/2010 18:05

OpenStreetMap diary:

Charing Cross Mapping Evening
Rather too soon after all the excitement of State Of The Map, we had a London mapping evening in Charing Cross. No time to take a ... read more 07/26/2010 02:15
State Of The Map 2010 in Girona
Last week I had a few sleepless nights because I was buzzing with OpenStreetMap thoughts and when I did sleep it was with mappy ... read more 07/20/2010 17:00
Belsize Park mapping party
At last Wednesday's London Summer mapping party we ventured out of zone 1 all the way up to Belsize Park. It's not very far out ... read more 07/06/2010 18:25
Government Technical Workshop
We've just had our OpenStreetMap Government Technical Workshop and hack weekend. We had Gareth Baker and Sandy Pacek from the ... read more 06/29/2010 17:55
Gov workshop & hack weekend tomorrow + other great events next week
I've got behind on a few things lately, there's some upcoming events which have crept up on me like a ninjapanthersnake. Damn ... read more 06/25/2010 04:37