devlog

Wireless network mapping is all the rage again. I’ve spent a fair amount of time researching and building prototypes in this space over the last couple of years. After 6 months of stasis, WirelessLondon recently unearthed a small budget surplus, which would pay for 7 days of my time among other things. We’re trying to […]

I am experiencing a bout of that same compulsion to verbiage that must bother regular bloggers daily - a kind of blogohrrea. Having exhausted the patience of my irc friends, i turn to the web as a verbal outlet.
In theory, times are very interesting. Semantic web projects with a spatial aspect, that i’ve been tinkering […]

Busily hacking together prototypes for Wireless London, a free network service collection thing.
The package will eventually contain an RSS aggregator server; written using the redland python interface, and a standalone GiST based spatial index. I’m planning to cobble together a generic RDF aggregator package soon, mostly from other peoples’ rss storage and feed parsing code. […]

Recently i was doing some research on the re-use of Listed Buildings . buildings of historical interest which have legal protection - in East London. So, i thought, i’ll download the list of listed buildings in Tower Hamlets, and then i’ll… Then, i hit the brick wall that is public sector information policy, very hard.
To […]

A few months ago i wrote a piece about the eurospatial cartel, which in its consultation process for the European Commission, overlooked the very clear and strong case for open access to state-collected geodata. Belatedly, i discovered that many of the recommendations in the INSPIRE documents have been collated into what is now going through […]

we lurked on the beer track mostly at foafcamp, but i visited the quick presentation sessions and did a braindump on geopolitical foaf, some of the socio-political networking projects that we’ve come across in california, some using foaf overtly, others with cotangent aims.
Most enjoyed, i think, graham klyne’s presentation on description logics in literate haskell, […]