Although open source and open data are phrases that have become more common in recent years, there is still some confusion about what the benefits are of each of these. In this short blog post, I will go through a few of the key reasons why the open philosophy is a good one. Community support … More Why open up?
Earlier this month, the UK Government announced that specific parts of the Ordnance Survey’s flagship mapping product, MasterMap, will be made available as Open Data (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/unlocking-of-governments-mapping-and-location-data-to-boost-economy-by-130m-a-year). This is one of the first projects to be delivered by the new Geospatial Commission and is being undertaken to kickstart new innovations and ideas. This is great news, … More OS MasterMap
On the 8th and 9th March 2018 I attended the FOSS4G:UK conference in London. London, I am in you Now for the tube #foss4guk pic.twitter.com/ZFjrxHKJdF — Alastair @ Geoger (@ajggeoger) March 8, 2018 This is a conference for promoting the great things that can be done using free and open source software for geospatial applications. … More Amazing openness
On 8th March I gave a workshop on satellite data processing at FOSS4G:UK in London. This post details that you’ll need to know before attending the workshop, and post-workshop if you want the instruction sheet 🙂 For this workshop you need to have downloaded the datasets provided online. This is really important, because there is … More FOSS4G:UK workshop details
Late last year, I was lucky enough to have been involved in the creation of one of the episodes of the University of Oxford’s “The Laboratory with Leaves” series of videos. The whole series is well worth a watch as it details the various different facets of research work that are being undertaken at Wytham … More Wytham video
Software These two sites are incredibly useful if you want to choose or understand an open licence for some software: tldrlegal.com choosealicense.com/ From these sites you can see just how many different open licence variants there are. Despite this, there are just a few that are commonly used, as shown in the ‘Most Popular’ column … More Open licences
There have been many interesting stories reported for the centenary of the First World War, some of which have a spatial data component. One such report recently told of the use of LiDAR technologies to (literally!) unearth defences from that period. Historic England, who commissioned the research, uses a variety of remote sensing methods and … More LiDAR and trenches revisited
Geoger is pleased to announce the award of a new Defra consultancy contract. We are part of a consortium led by Specto Natura Ltd along with APMGeo Ltd which is tasked to operationalise the creation of a set of generic indicator products under the Earth Observation Data Integration Pilot (EODIP) project framework. The project takes the technical specification for an … More A further Defra project win
This is an updated post based on this blog post from 2014. The work presented here is still a proof of concept to demonstrate the utility of open data. If you’d like to work with Geoger to develop this further, please get in touch. The idea Metaldehyde is a pesticide found primarily in slug pellets and associated products, … More Open data and Metaldehyde risk mapping [update]
Over the last year Geoger has been working with researchers at Wytham Woods (the Oxford University research wood, to the west of the city) to investigate the utility of LiDAR data for uncovering archaeological features – specifically, the remains of a network of World War 1 training trenches. The work started with the use of … More Open elevation data & archaeology: Part 1
