Conferences this summer
This summer I will be at these events:
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June 1st - 3rd: Midgard Developer Meeting, Helsinki, Finland
Discussion about the upcoming Midgard 2 release -
July 14th - 15th: The State of the Map, Manchester, UK
Speaking with Andrew Turner about GeoClue and learning more about OpenStreetMap -
July 15th - 19th: GUADEC, Birmingham, UK
Speaking with Andrew Turner and Tuomas Kuosmanen about GeoClue and geodata standards
Between these, some GeoRSS aggregation initiatives and the GeoClue for Maemo Google SoC project that I mentor, the summer will be quite geographically oriented. Which sounds like fun :-)
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We need public access to Geodata in Europe
Public Geo Data is sending an open letter to the European council of environment ministers to request that the access to geographical databases would be opened to the public. While some data is open and available, we’re still far behind the US in this issue.
GeoClue and Maemo Plazer
We had another Maemo hacking night here at the office. The plan was to write a proper UI for the Maemo Plazer, and integrate it with the GeoClue framework. Both of these were partially completed, but will need more thought and testing. Here’s a quick snapshot of the new UI: