Harry Wood

Welcome to Harry Wood's website. The blog is probably more interesting than the rest of this site... and the blog isn't very interesting so what does that tell you?

Recent blog posts:

My SOTM11 talk
We had the annual “State of the map” OpenStreetMap conference a month ago. This was in Denver. I had a choice between this or the more sensible carbon-effiecent location of Vienna for SOTM-EU a few months earlier. I decided to go to ... read more 10/10/2011 02:28
Society of Cartographers Plymouth
A couple of weeks ago I was in Plymouth for the Society of Cartographers Annual Conference. Lots of interesting talks and a fun and friendly atmosphere, particularly during the evening entertainment: pub quiz, boat trip and rum cocktails. [update: ... read more 09/24/2011 11:17
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team talk for Article25
Last week I gave a talk about humanitarian mapping with OpenStreetMap. This was at an event organised by Article25, sponge network, and RIBA knowledge communities. Download slides as an OpenOffice .odp file Slides on slideshare.net Or here are the ... read more 08/13/2011 13:58
32nd Birthday
A few years ago I had thought (with some sadness) that I didn’t really know how to get completely drunk any more. I could tolerate quite a lot of beer, and I formed a very grown up and very boring habit of slowing down when I felt myself ... read more 08/13/2011 07:21
VisionOn.TV OpenStreetMap interview
As well as giving a talk at OpenTech, I also did little interview about OpenStreetMap for VisionOn.TV: On VisionOn.TV site this is in various categories, or this individual interview is on blip.tv, or youtube The “Documentation” link I ... read more 05/27/2011 06:26

OpenStreetMap diary:

Various London events
I normally blog about the previous OpenStreetMap London pub meet-up, before announcing the next one here, but due to an intense ... read more 01/30/2012 09:54
My Mappy Christmas
Phewee. I was expecting to have a long quiet somewhat boring christmas back home in Yorkshire, during which I would surely get ... read more 01/05/2012 07:43
Mulberry bush last time + OpenStreetMap Christmas Party TOMORROW
A couple of weeks ago we had a small pub meet-up. It was sandwiched between various other events and at this time of year ... read more 12/16/2011 11:51
Fundraiser and Xmas party promotion
Recently I've managed to catch two colds in row. How does that happen? Where's my immune system? At work I have one of those ... read more 12/08/2011 06:15
Brighton, MapAction, geomob and the Hack Weekend + TONIGHT
It's been a while since we had a common conventional good old straightforward London pub meet-up, mainly because there's been all ... read more 11/30/2011 10:35