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I Voted

Andrew — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:59:41 +0000

…and so should you. And why not take a photo to capture your exercising democratic choice. Make sure to check out and add your “ivoted” photo to the Flickr ivoted group.

If you’re not sure where to go, I posted a dataset in KML (and CSV and Shapefile) to Finder! of Early Voting Locations for the US so you can find your nearest polling location.

2007 Year in Review

Andrew — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:59:24 +0000

The fact that I’m writing this “year in review” is indicative of the kind of year it’s been. At the end of 2006, I thought that it was a crazy year – getting married, writing a book, winning the MapQuest contest – and life would finally settle down a little bit. I was wrong. 2007 was an exciting, amazing, and incredibly busy year.

So here is a quick post-mortem on the major events of 2007:

Traveled around New Zealand for 3 weeks on honeymoon
Dual Neogeography Tutorial at Location Intelligence Conference, and Geo on your Website talk at Web2.0 Expo in April in San Francisco
Mapufacture incorporated
Published 2 MacTech articles and Make Magazine article
On the Where2.0 committee and gave a talk on the GeoStack in May
WhereCamp fun
FooCamp fun in Sebastapol in June
Week vacation at a beach house in Kauai, Hawaii
2 weeks in the UK speaking at State of the Map in Manchester an GUADEC in Birmingham in September, both on GeoClue
Mapufacture joined the OGC
Lightning talk on Neogeography Data Collection at FOSS4G in Victoria, BC Canada in September
Spoke at GISDay at University of Kansas on Neogeography & GIS
Traveled for 3 weeks around China – doubled Mandarin vocabulary
Lived at 5 different addresses during the year

There was a smattering of other events, the most important being Corrie finishing her dissertation! I’m very excited what 2008 will bring, already looking like Africa and Vietnam are on the itinerary at some point and several conferences. Of course, knowing where I’ll be living after January will be a definite plus.

Thanks for a great year 2007!

Birthdays are for mashing up

Andrew — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:23:35 +0000

Map of aggregated feeds from my life & travels:

Tags: birthday, mapufacture, aggregation, geo, neogeography

Busy with Projects

Andrew — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:30:24 +0000

I’ve been rather incommunicado for awhile. I’ve been very busy with several projects, all of which are due in the short-term and I can talk about after they’re done.

Let’s just give a few teasers:

It’s compact, re(a)d, and has a tail.
Where, oh where, has the local coffee shop gone?
Don’t be late!

I’m also busy with wedding planning and honeymoon arrangements. I will, of course, be tracking our excursions in the GeoPress demo blog, which also happens to be my current travelog. Of course, my friends & family also dragged me off for a weekend of fun in Boston (there was some work too). I highly recommend the

Cambridge Brewing Company

Tags: personal, honeymoon, timemanagement, wedding