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Sponsor Anna - Running for Gurob Fieldwork

The Biting Wires Tuesday January 24, 2012 |

On 12 February 2012 I will be running the Southport Maddog 10k in order to raise funds for the 2012 Gurob Harem Palace project's fieldwork season. I would be extremely grateful for your sponsorship !

Personal musings on the authority of OpenStreetMap

Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK openstreetmap | Wednesday January 18, 2012 |

There has been a lot of fairly excitable posting recently about the continuing rise of OpenStreetMap, and how it’s now being used in place of Google Maps,  in particular since Google started charging for data. People have been talking about how “...

pgRouting Ubuntu quick start

Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK Postgis | Monday December 19, 2011 |

Caution- this post won’t make you a pgRouting guru, but it will allow you to get pgrouting up and running on Ubuntu 11.10 and have some data on a map in approx 20 minutes. Follow the instructions here to install PostgreSQL, PostGIS and pgRouting....

Total Open Station (TOPS) 0.3 Released

The Biting Wires Friday December 02, 2011 |

A new edition of the open source software for the downloading and processing of archaeological survey data has been released today! TOPS runs on any operating system, including mobile platforms like OpenMoko, and it is designed to support as many devices and...

Mapserver, Tilecache and Proxies

Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK mapserver | Tuesday November 29, 2011 |

If you end up doing a lot of work on mapserver and tilecache behind corporate proxy servers, you’re likely to hit a couple of snags, when the proxy thinks you’re trying to do something evil, when really all you want to do is seed a tilecache or...

Gurob Harem Palace Project Conference - part 2

The Biting Wires Friday November 18, 2011 |

The conference report, written by Birgit Schoer, is now online! Please have a look at the Project website ! I have furthermore uploaded some more photos from the event to a Picasa album ! I hope you enjoy them!

Gurob Harem Palace Project Conference 2011

The Biting Wires Sunday November 06, 2011 |

A conference on our fieldwork at Gurob was held November 4th and 5th at UCL, London to discuss recent fieldwork results of the Gurob Harem Palace Project and raise funds for future seasons. I have produced a short Twitter summary of the tweets produced...

Happy Halloween!

Wisteria and Cow Parsley Monday October 31, 2011 |

Wishing all my dear friends a very Happy Halloween! The Noodle now eight months old. Alas I have had no time for the blog of late. Family commitments have kept me from it, but The Noodle and I have visited a few gardens this year...

Conferences: a different perspective

Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK FOSS4G | Wednesday October 05, 2011 |

September is clearly conference month in the geo world. FOSS4G in Denver, which I didn’t go to, was closely followed by the AGI GeoCommunity in Nottingham, which I did. I participated FOSS4G vicariously, following twitter and starring lots of ...

How to explain open source to your grandparents

Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK opensource | Wednesday September 14, 2011 |

I imagine I’m not alone in having parents and grandparents who don’t really understand what I do for a living. “I work in computing and do stuff with maps” is the easy approach (in fact it’s easier now that I don’t have to...

Setting up a PostgreSQL standby server

Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK Uncategorized | Thursday August 11, 2011 |

Over the last couple of months I have been investigating options for setting up a standby server for PostgreSQL, you know, the sort of magical thing that stops your day/night/week being totally wrecked when, to quote Joel Spolsky   you “go crying to the...

Wordless Wednesday: Summer Jazz

Wisteria and Cow Parsley Flower Power | Wednesday August 03, 2011 |

 Salvia horminium Claryssa

Wordless Wednesday: Summer Jazz

Wisteria and Cow Parsley Flower Power | Wednesday August 03, 2011 |

 Salvia horminium Claryssa

Wordless Wednesday: Summer Jazz

Wisteria and Cow Parsley Flower Power | Wednesday August 03, 2011 |

 Salvia horminium Claryssa

Wordless Wednesday: Summer Jazz

Wisteria and Cow Parsley Flower Power | Wednesday August 03, 2011 |

 Salvia horminium Claryssa

Wordless Wednesday: Summer Jazz

Wisteria and Cow Parsley Flower Power | Wednesday August 03, 2011 |

 Salvia horminium Claryssa

Wordless Wednesday: Summer Jazz

Wisteria and Cow Parsley Flower Power | Wednesday August 03, 2011 |

 Salvia horminium Claryssa

Wordless Wednesday: Summer Jazz

Wisteria and Cow Parsley Flower Power | Wednesday August 03, 2011 |

 Salvia horminium Claryssa

JULY 2011

Discovering Dorchester through Archaeology Monday July 25, 2011 |

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JULY 2011

Discovering Dorchester through Archaeology Monday July 25, 2011 |

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JULY 2011

Discovering Dorchester through Archaeology Monday July 25, 2011 |

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JULY 2011

Discovering Dorchester through Archaeology Monday July 25, 2011 |

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JULY 2011

Discovering Dorchester through Archaeology Monday July 25, 2011 |

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JULY 2011

Discovering Dorchester through Archaeology Monday July 25, 2011 |

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