September 2009
7 hours spent reading about how to cook good food leaves one a bit peckish http://twitpic.com/je3xv
DC Airport ads aren’t trying to induce you to buy something, they’re trying to shape policy http://twitpic.com/jfctz
wandering through history in Cambridge
nom with a buttery scone, jam and cream paired with a subtle Earl Grey outside King’s College http://twitpic.com/j81cd
arrived in London via expedient mass transit. enroute to Adwych House for a day of meetings, then to the pub tonight with @simonw
Unhappy to discover that while I am in London, my passport is not. Fortunately it will join me after a short excursion through countryside
romping fun night of authentic British curry, Boddington’s, and full-on #geoglobaldomination discussions #geocom
An especially ‘paleo’-GIS demo from @mpdaly in his ‘neo vs ‘paleo’ talk. inspecting features and buffering in a Windows desktop tool
the discussion about neogeography confuses the point - it’s not about the tools. Slippy maps do not a “neo” application make.
Peter ter Haar of Ordnance Survey explains that if you locate a feature that they don’t know about, you own it but if mapped they do #geocom
Closing plenary 3 students: boy w/ glasses, brown haired girl, and red haired boy. Do all British children group like Harry Potter? #geocom
geowalk with @pmbatty through Warwick Castle and then very non-geo dinner with very laid back old-school Brits over pints
Google’s Places page don’t have any meaningful content or links in the HTML. Using the web, but not part of the web
arrived in Stratford-upon-Avon - inundated with Shakespeare-iness
AGI #geocom Geocaching event only provides UK National Grid Reference coords. Can’t find that setting on my iPhone #gisfail #1
great overview of cartographic principles from Kenneth Field at Kington University http://kingston.ac.uk/centreforgis #geocom
the upload speed of my 60MB plenary talk slides is inversely proportional to the speed the talk was delivered in person
psychogeography discussion gets traditional geo people excited, led by @tomtaylor on utilizing Flickr shapes, Dopplr & Noticin.gs #geocom
impromptu poll in GeoWeb stream on audience’s use of blogs, linkedin, Twitter, and facebook. LinkedIn and FB win by far #geocom
day full of search strategies and potential applications to the EPA in achieving mission, outreach, and internal collaboration #epass
contour lines are those squiggly things that are close together near big hills, right @map_maker? useful as relative, not absolute measure
Achieved sufficient ratio of @JackDangermond quotes to “GIS is Dead” references in #geocom talk. Time to board
great discussion on voice applications combined with geospatial applications with @emcooke
Spending the gorgeous Sunday touching up multiple slide decks - EPA geospatial search summit, and AGI GeoCommunity
lunch Fortune cookie offering advice on my #AGI @GeoCommunity talk #geoforeshadowing
Competition for services on open data heat up - deCarta announces support for #openstreetmap http://bit.ly/1WWMx (via @cageyjames)
doing the git shuffle via prodigious use of lightweight branches and cherry-picks
interested in forming or joining a US local or national OpenStreetMap chapter? http://bit.ly/xcJ8c
check out “OffMaps” @ToddHuffman - route-me is an open-source iPhone library for using OpenStreetMap tiles and data
Uh oh - “Can’t find variable: google” — we may have a problem
clear, CC-style description of the ODbL license that OSM will use http://bit.ly/16pmev - however the “adapted version of db” is non-specific
thoroughly grooving Son Volt concert at 9:30 club last night with @mikel (iTunes: http://bit.ly/1aAamL)
“Dear Internets, please clear your cache” - #PSA
apparently we were IP blocked by @github - perhaps our devs are working too hard and look like a DOS? thx for the fix #github-tekkub
“Some purchased items could not be transferred to your library b/c you are not authorized” - what part of “purchased” confused you Apple?
went on a bit of a music buying bender last night thx to @lhl and Aurgasm. Jessica Fichot, Rachel Goodrich, Lenka, Matt&Kim, Gavin Glass
I thought I broke the google: http://bit.ly/3H2aLH
looking forward to the citizen-space revolution http://bit.ly/1VTKMD - spaceships following the mainframe->iphone evolution
the Rapid Fire: Location,Location,Location videos from #Gov2Summit have been posted http://gov2summit.blip.tv/file/2596312/
Someone spilled cheap beer on me. Ibf you’re going to give it up, make it something worth sharing #gomicro
.@nateritter like any business: build something useful that people will pay money for because it provides something they need. Just sayin’.
lonely walk to the office today without @drclark.
Excited about DataLiberation.org - now vote on open licensing of the imagery and data used in GoogleMaps http://bit.ly/2LS5UM (via @dewitt)
OH in the @geocommons office “I think 1988 called and asked for their mapping app back” -@seangorman
Birthday breakfast brunch at Kramer’s Afterwords Cafe. http://twitpic.com/hlnd3
started scheduling meetings for 2010 - is that only acceptable post-Labor Day when I put away my white shoes?
DC Government’s Appstore (http://appstore.dc.gov/) and free & open source (http://code.google.com/p/octolabs) - @kachok rocks!
coming to @MappingTheZoo? We have Walking Papers, GPS & more. http://bit.ly/GUeYZ Meet up at 10am at Connecticut Ave NW entrance (Starbucks)
It’s not the “Holodeck” but the “Google Immersive Simulation” (GIS) @osbornec
fighting ghosts in the machine - keeping the daemons at bay - and many more such questionable metaphors