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Wheelchair Accessibility Mapping Party at UCL

As part of the induction week for the new cohort of the MSc in GIS here at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, I organised a OpenStreetMap Mapping Party. OSM mapping is not only a fun activity that gets the students out of the classroom and getting to know each other, but also [...]

State of the Map EU – Presentation available online

Just a quick pointer to the recording of the presentation of the joint work between Dr Catherine Jones and myself here at SOTMEU (I only got the video to work in Firefox!) So, far a great and vibrant conference, and our research into usability issues in OpenStreetMap was well received. I was particularly pleased by the positive [...]

WhereCampEU2011 – the best bits

Last weekend I attended the 2011 edition of WhereCampEU, held this time in sunny Berlin. It was a great conference, altough smaller than previously in London, but with more diverse presentations than last year’s unconference. I also presented our recent work on geoweb usability at the conference, even though we haven’t had a chance yet [...]