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Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK
Thursday May 10, 2012 |
The UK local chapter of OSGeo are bidding to host FOSS4G in the UK in 2013! For those of you that don’t know, the location of the main FOSS4G “meeting of the tribes” conference moves around from continent to continent each year, and 2013 is...
Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK
Monday April 02, 2012 |
Archaeogeek is now migrated to Octopress! There are a couple of things still to sort out, such as some old broken links, a non-default theme and comments on older blog posts. Hopefully the pharma hack that has been polluting my google search results for a...
Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK
Sunday April 01, 2012 |
I’ve talked previously about wanting to move Archaeogeek from Wordpress- well I’m about to start that process. I’m expecting some disruption as I feel my way with Octopress- blimey even getting 7 years of blog across intact is going to be...
Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK
Friday March 23, 2012 |
Over the last couple of weeks, a few people have asked me the same question, which is (to paraphrase) “what’s the difference between Portable GIS and OSGeo Live or USB GIS ?”. You get asked something once, and that’s fine, but more...
Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK
Friday March 16, 2012 |
Earlier this week I did a couple of presentations for the Association for Geographic Information (AGI) Welsh Group, along with my colleague Matt and a couple of people from Dotted Eyes, another company doing a lot of work with Open Source here in the UK. I did...
The Biting Wires
Thursday March 15, 2012 |
The Colossi of Memnon by Hannah Pethen My friend, fellow PhD student and team member at Gurob , Hannah Pethen, has recently uploaded a vast amount of fantastic photos to her Flickr photo stream . These images depict many archaeological sites in Egypt,...
Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK
Wednesday March 07, 2012 |
It has been a while since I posted, and while I’m probably the only person bothered by that, I thought I ought to put an update together! The blog has been going for over 5 years now, and in that time, in the UK, the attitude towards open source...
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 !
Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK
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 ”...
Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK
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...
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...
Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK
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...
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!
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...
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...
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...
Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK
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 ...
Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK
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...
Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK
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...
Wisteria and Cow Parsley
Flower Power | Wednesday August 03, 2011 |
Salvia horminium Claryssa
Wisteria and Cow Parsley
Flower Power | Wednesday August 03, 2011 |
Salvia horminium Claryssa
Wisteria and Cow Parsley
Flower Power | Wednesday August 03, 2011 |
Salvia horminium Claryssa
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