This is a great site that I’ve come across recently: https://discoverwater.co.uk/ It’s full of statistics and information about the whole lifecycle of your water in the UK. Although some of the things they do from a corporate stand point can be questioned, I think that the water companies sometimes get unfairly knocked regarding the work they … More Discover water
The fifth episode of the Scene From Above podcast. … More Scene From Above S1 E5
In August 2013, I set up Geoger Ltd. as a fully fledged company. I had a rough plan about what I was going to do, how I was going to do it, and I had a single contract for a couple of days work lined up and ready. I’d been in the commercial world since … More Mentoring
The third episode of the Scene From Above podcast. … More Scene From Above S1 E3
The OSGeo have a brand new website design! Check out https://www.osgeo.org/ The Open Source Geospatial Foundation supports all things open related to geospatial – both software and data. Check out some of the projects listed under the tab at the top of the homepage. There are OSGeo project as well as community projects. Some you’ll be … More OSGeo
In September (2017), and in line with the ethos that governs Geoger, I donated a proportion of the previous year’s profits to three of the open source communities that produce or support the software that I use regularly. Donations were made to QGIS, SAGA GIS and NumFocus. In future years I hope to increase the … More Geoger supports open source
Back in mid-July I was lucky enough to be asked to present at a conference event linked to the ICARES project (see http://icaresproject.eu/#about). The conference was held in Ebbsfleet and involved a number of academics from around Europe, as well as businesses and other organisations – including Kent police. The aim of the ICARES project is … More ICARES presentation
I was part of a discussion recently about different management styles. As an independent consultant, I currently only have to manage myself, although the desire is to grow the business and a team of likeminded people. The thoughts and arguments that were being presented by those of us having the discussion caught my interest, so I … More How do you manage?
Tomorrow (17th June 2016) I will be attending the ‘From satellite to soil: connecting environmental observation to agri-tech innovations‘ event at the Royal Institution. Details on the event are provided here: https://royalsociety.org/events/2016/06/observation-and-agritech/ and for me, one of the key phrases in the event description is “in the middle of this value chain are intermediary companies … More Not just an EO company
There was a recent(ish) comment on a jobs mailing list that I subscribe to suggesting that there is a ‘race to the bottom’ in terms of renumeration for advertised positions. The following text is an edited version of that on the mailing list. A quick note to my fellow GIS professionals. There’s been a proliferation … More Race to….. the top?
