Brain OffMikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our PlanetInternationalizing OpenStreetMap in the Summer of Code- April 22, 2008 Arindam Ghosh project proposal to internationalize OpenStreetMap has been accepted by Google Summer of Code, and I&8217;ll be mentoring. Congrats Arindam, and the other three SoC students. Internationalizing and localizing is crucial to growth of the project. There&8217;s many facets here, from the website itself, to the tile rendering, and other tools. We&8217;re going to be ...http://brainoff.com/weblog/2008/04/22/1330 How do we determine the names for things- April 15, 2008 Illuminating and fascinating reading on Google&8217;s naming policy for disputed places. Commendable that their decision making process, and the process for devising that process, have been so transparently communicated. There are things here for any mapping organization to learn from. And interesting to see how far Google&8217;s process has paralleled OpenStreetMap, and where it ultimately ...http://brainoff.com/weblog/2008/04/16/1328 California Fires were Baja California Fires too- April 7, 2008 On Saturday, I attended Guinevere Harrison&8217;s thesis talk on Neogeography. It&8217;s interesting to see the work of our &8220;field&8221; contextualized for an art criticism audience. Of course, the links between neogeography and art criticism go deep, with Locative Media fostering us techies in the early days, particularly Ben Russell of the Headmap Manifesto. One shocking item ...http://brainoff.com/weblog/2008/04/07/1326 GreenDevCamp, Yuris Night, LugRadio- April 4, 2008 It appears that GreenDevCamp has been postponed to June! Disappointed! Hopefully we can get organized by then &8212; this could be a great event. GreenDevCamp is taking place April 19 postponded in Redwood City at the Green Building Exchange. An un-conference with this focus seems long overdue in the Bay Area, home to some of the ...http://brainoff.com/weblog/2008/04/04/1324 In California and Support Open Geo Data Oppose AB 1978- April 1, 2008 Update from Adina Levin: &8220;I just heard from Sacramento the bill sponsor has withdrawn the AB1978 and does not plan to resubmit it this year. In other words, the bill is dead.&8221; Congrats people When I relocated from the UK, my expectation was a welcome rest from struggles with absurd licensing schemes of government data. ...http://brainoff.com/weblog/2008/04/01/1323 |