from Gregory Marler’s blog, LivingWithDragons.com- A different kind of mapathon November 25, 2022
- OpenStreetMap Questions January 26, 2022
- Emmanuel’s November Mapping December 13, 2021
- Mapping Styles and Terms March 24, 2021
- Why your community should host SotM June 19, 2019
- Slides from my talks June 27, 2018
- Finding people to bring to SotM January 8, 2018
Category Archives: Thoughts
Go Granny Go
The North East is continually getting more involved in open data, but also in the councils working together on the subject. So it was a great privilege when Paul, from Newcastle City Council, invited me to be one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged councils, Data Mill North, health, North East, open data
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Open Data activity of UK councils
What does it mean to have an open data approach, and what UK councils are doing it well? Before Christmas, Durham County Council decided it was best to learn from others before they considered what actions they take themselves. In … Continue reading
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Tagged durham, Durham County Council, open data, Open Data Day, report, research
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A Better Nest Opens in the North East
Perhaps the best part of working for myself is that I get to choose where I work. Depending what appears on the to-do list, altering my location and environment can really help productivity. So I’ve built up a mental catalogue … Continue reading
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Tagged Co-working, Low Fell Nest, office
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App ideas for the North East
This should interest motorists in particular, although there is interest for public transport users & city walkers too. The Digital Catapult and the North East Combined Authority (neca) are making great steps to support open data in the region. I’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged CCTV, data movement, Digital Catapult, NECA, open data, UTMC
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Notes from a hack weekend
I won prizes!!! That’s a big spoiler for this post, but as I won it seems fair to write about the Tech For Good event that I was at last weekend. There are hack weekends happening frequently around the country, … Continue reading
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Tagged Campus North, charity, hack weekend, hacking, NSPCC, Tech For Good, Virgin Money Giving
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OD Camp 2: Edible Giving launches, with a side of map editing
Having found February’s Open Data Camp (#ODcamp) to be really beneficial and rewarding, it was without a doubt that I was going to go along when the organisers brought it closer to home ‘oop North in Manchester. I could only … Continue reading
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Tagged conference, Edible Giving, odcamp, open data, OpenStreetMap, workshop
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Scrum For One
My company often works using the Agile Scrum methodology/practices, but when people know my company only has one full-time employee they wonder how I can make such a claim. Scrum was first defined in 1986 and has been well established … Continue reading
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Tagged Co-working, Scrum, To Do, Working Methodology
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Investigating Political Data
The upcoming general election is getting into all our minds, as if politics affects everyone’s life. A few weeks ago I was considering how politicians declare certain identities so that certain communities will vote for them, but once elected as MPs … Continue reading
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Tagged data, Elections, Grahame Morris, mySociety, politics, Robert Blackman-Woods, TheyWorkForYou, YourNextMP
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Open Data Camp
The digital innovative movement is embracing open data at the moment, and Open Data Day usually sees a whole host of events across the UK. This year was even more exciting with the launch of Open Data Camp, organised by a … Continue reading
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Tagged addressing, charity, conference, food, odcamp, open data, OpenStreetMap, public data, Winchester
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Look at my latest project
Being a web developer is descriped as a powerful gift: they get amazing ideas like everyone else but they have the ability to build an implementation of the idea direct from mental notes and see what actually happens. To tell … Continue reading
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Tagged artwork, electronics, physical, raspberry pi, rpi
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