http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:17:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week we had a London Wiki Wednesdays event, and this time I was involved helping to organise and promote it. You can read what happened here (including lots more pics) The event was hosted by NYK line thanks to Alek Lotoczko. Alek along with me, Gordon, ... http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2010/03/07/london-wiki-wednesdays-march-2010/ In last week's blog post I casually mentioned the Haiti earthquake, and how we had a little project going on, to improve the map of the area on OpenStreetMap. Since then the scale of the disaster has become clearer to me. 200,000 feared dead, and the story has been top ... http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2010/01/21/haiti-earthquake-on-openstreetmap/ One of the most interesting aspects of OpenStreetMap is its global scope. The whole world map is editable wiki-style, and the various techniques for creating maps can work just as well in Niarobi and Nagpur as they do in Newcastle and New York. The project has always been most active ... http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2010/01/13/openstreetmap-in-the-developing-world/ As a follow up on the OpenStreetMap jigsaw, it seems dad has conquered the 1000 piece beast. Here's what he had to say about his Christmas present: "I finally finished the jig-saw the day before yesterday, after several days obsessively working on it. Nearly drove your Mum mad because apart ... http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2010/01/06/doing-the-openstreetmap-jigsaw/ In case you missed all my gloating tweets (@harry_wood), I've been away in Brazil in the baking summer sunshine for the past three weeks. Here's some pics: There's more on facebook too. Another great Brazil holiday. I'm starting to get to know the girlfriend's family a bit better despite not really speaking ... http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2010/01/06/brazil-holiday-20092010/ I got an exciting Christmas present for my dad. Pretty sure he doesn't read my blog so I'll tell you about it here (shhhh) There's a bunch of different sites for ordering custom jigsaw puzzles. Obviously the normal thing is to use one of your own photos, but how about a ... http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2009/12/10/openstreetmap-jigsaw/ Today's the last day for the CloudMade London team. We're not powering down any servers. It's business as usual for the rest of CloudMade, but for me, Andy, Matt, Shaun and Emma it's time to finish packing up junk and selecting office furniture to purloin. It's been an pretty amazing year. ... http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2009/11/30/last-day-for-cloudmade-london/ At Where2.0Now I presented the OpenStreetMap idea with these slides: OpenStreetMap talk at Where2.0Now on slideshare I will post a video link if and when it comes available, but here's a wee photo for the time being: Promoting OpenStreetMap I like to highlight similarities with wikipedia. The approach of letting anyone edit without strict ... http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2009/11/12/openstreetmap-at-where20now/ Yesterday was the Where2.0Now conference of the AGI Northern Group. Here's the list of speakers again: Prof. Henk Scholten (Geodan) Gary Gale (Yahoo!) Tim Warr (Axon Active) Harry Wood (CloudMade) - OpenStreetMap. Open Licensed GeoData - Slides - more info Jo Cook (OSGeo) John McKerrell (MapMe.at) Stuart Harrison (Lichfield District Council) Chris Osborne (ITO World) - Enabling Better Public ... http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2009/11/11/where20now-agi-northern-group-conference/ London Wiki Wednesdays last night (Wednesday night in fact) was pretty good. It was kindly hosted by NYK line in the amazing city point tower. Here's the slides for the little talk I gave: 'OpenStreetMap : The Wikipedia of Maps' on slideshare In fact on the second slide you can see the ... http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2009/10/09/osm-talk-at-london-wiki-wednesdays/