Toronto OpenStreetMap Hack Weekend

Mar 212012
 

The Open­StreetMap project has over half a mil­lion map con­trib­u­tors and a fairly exten­sive devel­oper com­mu­nity. This past week­end, the first-ever Open­StreetMap hack week­end was held in Toronto, Canada (second-ever North Amer­i­can hack) at Ryer­son Uni­ver­sity. This event was jointly hosted with the Depart­ment of Geog­ra­phy, Mas­ter of Spa­tial Analy­sis and the Stu­dent Asso­ci­a­tion of Geo­graphic Analy­sis. Event coör­di­na­tion was taken care of by Richard Weait, long-time advo­cate of OpenStreetMap.

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Earthquake in Virginia; also felt in Toronto

Aug 232011
 

An earth­quake mea­sur­ing in at 5.9 mag­ni­tude, hit Vir­ginia (epi­cen­tre) at approx­i­mately 17:51:03 GMT. I am writ­ing this post from my office at Ryer­son Uni­ver­sity, Toronto, Ontario, where we also felt the ground move beneath us.… Okay, to be frank, I didn’t feel any­thing. But my class­mates and col­leagues have reported that they felt the earth­quake. Now, the rea­son why I am post­ing about this, is not exactly because I think the earth­quake was that sig­nif­i­cant and worth men­tion­ing. I would like to share with you a lit­tle map that I cre­ated a few Con­tinue reading »