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An increasing number of online services use location information. This places suppliers like Google, with its Google Maps, in a strong ...

Recently, Techdirt wrote about the increasing number of Web sites that were dumping Google Maps and turning to OpenStreetMap (OSM) inste...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how businesses based around giving stuff away were able to make money by replacing far more expensive opt...

One of the striking features of some of the most successful startups over the last ten years – companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter...

If you want further proof that openness is inherently subversive, try this : China's Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (BSM) has warned fo...

One of the powerful features of open source is re-use: you don't have to re-invent the wheel, but can build on the work of others. That...

Although many people have heard of OpenStreetMap, not everyone realises just how damn successful and important it is becoming. Here's o...

One of the most successful open projects is OpenStreetMap , which seeks to bypass the Ordnance Survey's stranglehold on geodata in the U...

...And probably didn't want to. Thanks to that nice Mr Mark Surman, I have been not only tagged but also subjected to fiendishly-cleve...

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is not only a great example of the open source methodology being applied outside software, it also started in the UK, wh...

I've written many times about OpenStreetMap, but rarely in the context of the proprietary online mapping services. Here's a post t...

OpenStreetMap goes from strength to strength : Earlier this week the project surpassed 50,000 registered users with over 5,000 actively cont...

Leaving aside Terminal 5's little teething problems today, and independently of the fact that the only way they will get my fingerprint...

Nice little piece by Charles Arthur in the Guardian today that pulls together a bunch of disparate stories (including my Alfresco profile ...

It's always good to see people who have given to the commons finding a way to make some dosh too. I've written before about the wo...

OpenStreetMap has always been one of my favourite open endeavours. It's a fine example of people getting fed up with official intransi...

Good to see that Yahoo is letting OpenStreetMap use its aerial imagery to speed up the process of free map creation. Of course, we still n...

How could I resist a blog entitled " From Sink Estates to SQL ", with the subtitle "Thoughts on Housing, IT, FOSS and Politic...

There's a piece in the Guardian about OpenStreetMap 's Isle of Wight effort . I was struck by this wonderful quotation: The weeke...

I wrote a little about the Guardian 's campaign to obtain open access to Government-generated data (which we pay for), but here's ...