Simon Willison’s Weblog

Temporary Mapping: Solar Decathlon. The OpenStreetMap default renderer supports start_date and end_date tags, meaning you can map temporary installations (in this case the 2009 Solar Decathlon on the DC National Mall) and have them automatically appear and disappear at the correct times.

# 13th October 2009, 3:18 pm / andrew-turner, mapping, openstreetmap, solardecathlon, tags

Mapstraction API Sandbox. Andrew Turner’s new tool for exploring the Mapstraction JavaScript library, which provides a unified code interface to 12 different mapping services

# 7th June 2009, 11:41 am / andrew-turner, javascript, mapping, mapstraction

FOWA London—Beyond GoogleMaps. Andrew Turner’s talk at FOWA was the most information dense presentation I’ve ever seen, and discussed a huge number of cool geo projects that I’d never previously heard of. Andrew links to the full slides and video, well worth a watch.

# 17th October 2008, 2:01 pm / andrew-turner, fowa2008, geo, google-maps, maps, presentations

FOWA pre-interview: Andrew Turner. I’ve started to post pre-interviews with speakers to the FOWA blog, in advance of the conference next week. First up is Andrew Turner of Mapufacture.

# 4th October 2008, 9:44 am / andrew-turner, fowa, interviews, mapufacture

Introduction to Neogeography (via) Having run in to Andrew Turner at last year’s EuroOSCON, this is the first O’Reilly Short Cuts PDF that I’ve been seriously tempted to buy.

# 27th January 2007, 12:09 am / andrew-turner, eurooscon, mapping, neogeography, oreilly