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[ Update:  Part II is on my Medium professional channel 2½ year later: Almost open data ] A lot of (virtual) ink has flowed around opening...

My first post on this theme traced beautiful medieval maps from the British library in London to the Harvard Libray online, to land on a...

Happy New Year! Don't you think that 175 blog posts and almost 150,000 page views over 7.5 years merit a catalog of my maps? This a...

[ Update: this was summarised into a story map here  posted also on this blog here ] Two years then one year ago I QC'd UK Ordnanc...

More and more free data are available that are quality-controlled and verifiable. Guardian Data Blog 's @smfrogers (now at Twitter) was ...

... or they are Man's best friend. I'm a big fan of the British Library, not only because it's next to Kings Cross station I ali...

[ 03 Nov 13 update : "relooped the loop" by testing the corrected Ordnance Survey data Feb 2013 update: Ordnance Survey cartogr...

I ran across these interesting web-mapping innovations - three on data consumption (multi-modal maps on steroids) and two on data creation (...

[2013 update: Socium is now 1SpatialCloud ] Three weeks ago  I introduced Socium's Online Validation Service (OVS). I showed the Ordna...

[ Update: follow ups for this project are Releasing Data Really Works Part I and Part IV ] Following vector maps on the web (cloud futur...

I've been a LinkedIn member for over six years and have learned to use Groups by now. It's a great place to ask questions among pee...

My friend Brent Jones' video is worth watching only for his tongue-in-cheek humour. I thought only Cambridge dons remembered that Newton...

Brisbane floods in eastern Australia affect areas I grew up in, and where friends still live. There are many map resources online through ne...

This is a totally geo poetry project out of the London Southbank Centre! It allows you to post poetry in its largest sense - poems, photos,...

A sure sign of succesful map, is when it blends into the application and serves an unobtrusive yet key role. I noted earlier in What's i...

Quarterly traffic figures to oilelefant.com show a pickup after the traditional summer lull. Of interest is the increase mostly due to visi...

Des Kilfoil at the CBC in Calgary, Canada introduced me 20-odd years ago to the 5Ws , the basic tenets of any investigative reporting, from ...

In preparation for tomorrow's TEDxOilSpill meet-up in Cambridge UK, let me highlight two among the many, many postings on the Gulf of M...

The recent announcement of data.gov.uk under none other than Tim Berners-Lee is a great step towards freeing UK data to the public - I won...

Continuing on my "tale of two" series - conferences , cities and systems - here are current affairs promised in my previous bl...