TIL that Internet Archive hosts a scanned copy of "Mapping Hacks". Restricted preview, you can log in to "borrow" it for an hour or 14 days. It's listed as "by Erle, @schuyler author" - three of us credited, many more contributed, who all have bios in the intro
https://archive.org/details/mappinghacks0000erle/page/395/mode/1up
My future self went looking for the piece i'm writing in 2003/4 on "What To Do If Your Government Is Hoarding Geographic Data"
Extracts follow in this thread! Sorry about the quality of the alt text OCR
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@zool How much of this was written pre-#OpenStreetMap? I'm presuming all of it given publishing lead times and no mention of OSM (plus your early toot about being in O'Reilly's office in 2003).
About 20 years ago was when I started falling out of love with the #OrdnanceSurvey : I bought a new 1:25k map and it still had the same inaccuracies of my earlier copy from 30 years earlier. A bit later learnt that the council had made the Wildlife Trust pay for a full survey to get planning consent. 1/2
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@zool At that point realised that this could be a more sensible & responsive model to fund map updates. About the same time I learnt one could get a CD-ROM of all 1:50k maps for £15 provided they were used with the JNCC Recorder package : thus providing a good idea of what the true distribution costs for map data might be. But all-in-all I was only thinking about making national data more readily available. (I really should not have held off buying a GPS for 10+ years)
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@SK53 thank you for this question! it's written mid 2003 and edited mid 2004. can't remember when London Free Map starts as a project but this "hello world" post suggests it's still in quite a putative state when i connect with OSM https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2004-November/000051.html
"working seriously on something i've only been dreaming about for years..."
the overall sense is of relief. my reaction is "someone else is going to maintain this", with a lot of nudging around, inevitably
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@SK53 my future self went looking for a web page describing my visit to the Ordnance Survey to talk Linked Open Data, how they could get in on the ground floor etc, in spring of 2003; a combination of their research development and press people summon me there after reading the quotes in this Guardian article https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2003/mar/27/newmedia.onlinesupplement
but the link was undiscoverable, and some of the things that are, we wouldn't choose to dredge up; that's how it goes...
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@zool It's quite likely I read this article at the time, but most of it would have not meant very much.
The corporate world I inhabited at the time was full of "web strategies" which meant crappy cut-down c/s software running in the browser. The arrival of the web knocked back the presentation of business intelligence back about 5 years (especially data-driven maps).
Besides which my overriding problem was daily munging of 50 Gbytes of accounting data in 2 hrs.
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@zool @SK53 I recall being around in those days, very vaguely in a similar orbit … it may seem commonplace now, but that article is a reminder of just how visionary you people were back then.
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@gklyne @SK53 our connection here is through the w3c #rdfig interest group channel on irc, semantic web / locative media crossover material, that's how i got into this :)
https://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/ - citation here for offering early sample data to @danbri
https://interconnected.org/notes/2003/04/etcon/gonzo.txt - incredibly flattering review by Matt Webb of the first version of the talk on this line of work, "Gonzo Collaborative Mapping on the Semantic Web", that i spent the summer of 2003 delivering in different places
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@zool @gklyne @danbri Now I want to know about deeper antecedents!
In early September 2003 I had a week in the Lower Engadin. In the evening I spent time sketching out ideas about how one might explore the rich heritage of the Alps. Location was critical: e.g., this was the viewpoint that Segantini used for the painting "Punishment of Lust" hanging in room X of the Walker Art gallery. These other artefacts encompass that view etc. Sounds like "Gonzo Mapping" would have been just the thing.
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@SK53 @zool @gklyne @danbri this article offers a nice retrospective on the Headmap Manifesto and its forward and backward influences, for some deep context: https://twentynine.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-216-know-your-place-headmap-manifesto-and-the-vision-of-locative-media/
"While the 2004 version much more explicitly acknowledges the path location-aware technologies will eventually follow – social networking, marketing and government surveillance – it still proposes amateur, anarchic and grassroots practices to counter this." - these practises look very different in 2024!
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