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
Pains me as it does to mention Starbucks, I keep seeing this short, but affecting, refrain everywhere. Why is it that we have to rely on monstrous coffee-chains to be doing the PR work of geographers?
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
OpenStreetMap’s State of the Map 2010 conference is fast approaching, and my paper “Vernacular mapping and the ethics of what comes next” has been accepted for the Sunday morning. Not sure what to make of this as my title sits … Continue reading
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
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!
It’s fall break at UNC this week, so 3Cs is off to the Southern Appalachian mountains on Tuesday until Friday, when we head to Athens, Georgia for a critical geography mini-conference hosted by the University of Georgia - it’s surprising to … Continue reading
At last, tomorrow I head to the states for the first (proper) time to begin fieldwork. After a change of planes at New York, I’ll be bound for Raleigh, then onwards to Chapel Hill in North Carolina. As ever, the … Continue reading
Heading to Manchester on Tuesday with a few fellow DPhil students for the annual Royal Geographic Society conference. Flicking through the provisional programme, it looks like participatory mapping is commanding alot of attention – are geographers at last starting to … Continue reading