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:

Interview about VGI and OpenStreetMap
The following is a set of questions which Bhaveen Dattani put to me, as part of his studies of VGI and OpenStreetMap for his course at Aston university. The basic questions are the always the big questions, and I had to take a step back and think a ... read more 04/01/2013 17:30
HOT at PICNIC
I was invited to speak at the PICNIC festival in Amsterdam. I was presenting OpenStreetMap and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team again, a slimmed down version of this presentation. I followed after Helena Puig Larrauri presenting the ... read more 09/28/2012 06:39
Workshop on Using OpenStreetMap Data
  I presented a workshop (or at least a live demo session) at the Society Of Cartographers conference with the rather vague open ended title of “Using OpenStreetMap Data”   -  “A tour of the various options for downloading ... read more 09/06/2012 15:49
Old sofa. Anyone want it?
Does anyone (who is able to collect it from London N19) want our crappy old sofa? Update: Due to the power of freecycle, the sofa is no longer available! Someone came round and collected it off me. The good news: Free sofa! The bad news: We ... read more 06/24/2012 11:16
Strasbourg
I used to post to my blog about various holiday travels. I wont try to catch up on the past two years, but here’s a little post about Strasbourg where my girlfriend and I spent a pleasant long weekend (avoiding jubilee). Some photos mainly. ... read more 06/09/2012 18:07

OpenStreetMap diary:

Marble Arch Tomorrow. Paper on OSMLondon events and new-comer retention
Tomorrow evening we're going mapping around Marble Arch! This will be a very beginner-friendly introduction to mapping. So ... read more 05/14/2013 05:59
The last two winter meet-ups, and first summer one TONIGHT
Boom! summer has arrived! Well spring time at least. And most importantly, daylight hours after work. This means it's ... read more 04/18/2013 04:53
Blue post last time, Crosse Keys tonight
The next London pub meet-up is tonight! Join us at the Crosse Keys pub from 7pm. As usual we'd love to have some new folks ... read more 03/07/2013 01:45
Tidying my map embedding examples
First of all... It's the London OpenStreetMap pub meet-up TONIGHT. Come join us! I've been working a bit more on the ... read more 02/19/2013 05:41
Hack Weekend at the ODI
We just had the London OpenStreetMap Hack weekend, and I think I'm right in saying this was the biggest OpenStreetMap hack ... read more 02/05/2013 15:55