Category: // Fieldlife
Nos vemos en Lima
With only a few days until we depart for Lima, preparations for the mapping party are coming together not too badly, and there has been more interest in the event than first anticipated. This reflects more ignorance and naivety on … Continue reading
Viral Lima
It’s not exactly viral, but the Lima mapping party is becoming contagious and its co-ordination rapidly out of my hands. It seems that there is already a vibrant open-source community in Peru, albeit a virtual one which as yet remains … Continue reading
lima
Currently organising the Lima Mapping Weekend for OpenStreetMap in August 2010. I think it will be Latin America’s first OSM mapping event, but that could be sheer hubris. If you find yourself in the vicinity of Lima or Peru, please … Continue reading
3Cs in London
3cs this side of the pond. Read more here.
Witham
Off on a bit of fieldwork tomorrow, joining an OpenStreetMap mapping party in Witham, Essex. GPS device, check; voice-recorder, check; pencil/paper, check; standard-issue geography student waterproof jacket, check. Ready to go.
Determination & Negation
In preparing for the ‘second round’ of fieldwork, it’s dawning on me that, just as Spinoza suggested, every determination is a negation. Put another way, every time you set out to do something, you are invariably saying no to other … Continue reading
a Line of flight
Leaving Chapel Hill tomorrow after around 3 months of fieldlife in North Carolina with the guys from 3Cs. Now begins the task of mobilising the materials which have been generated on the trip – but in a way which does … Continue reading
Learning to fail (better)
You may have noticed the error in the previous post which labelled Tom’s blog as spaces of ‘representation’, rather than experimentation. As with all blogging, I could just edit the post and delete the error, but I’m leaving it up … Continue reading
Heading north
It’s Thanksgiving on 26 November, so just tomorrow in Chapel Hill, then driving north to Illinois early Tuesday morning to enjoy the holiday with a friend studying here at UNC. Too much work…too little time!