Husband, Father, CTO at Kamma, geotechnologist, map geek, coffee addict, Sci-fi fan, UNIX and Mac user. Also available as @vicchi@mapstodon.space
Joined March 2007
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And it's 2010 all over again and @gowalla is back on my phone. Location wars redux? We shall see ...
vicchi.org/2023/06/02/check-…
#checkin #locationwars
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Day 3 of the #teddington and #fulwell "signal to noise" issue with @virginmedia and ping tells me that nothing has improved so far. Who knows where the other 50% of my packets ended up?
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Gary Gale retweeted
26 Feb 2021
Our #fridaygeotrivia question this month: Name countries (and emjoi flag!) that have territory on multiple continents. A simple example is Russia 🇷🇺, which is in Europe and Asia.
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Today I wrote another article; this time about UPRNs, UK addressing "fun", the gems quietly hidden in a press release and how to make data sets hold hands together more easily ...
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This month, 51 major property organisations wrote to @RobertJenrick, calling for widespread adoption of Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs).
In this article, we fully back this recommendation and outline two of the letter's most vital clauses…
kammadata.com/news/2021/01/3…
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It is a sad day for the #VaguelyRudePlacesMap as the Austrian town of Fucking rebrands as Fugging (vaguelyrudeplacesmap.com/?id…), see zerohedge.com/geopolitical/a…
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big congrats to geomobster @vicchi for this fantastic project. We discussed the background a few months ago in Ep. 37 of the podcast thegeomob.com/podcast/episod… now it is live
I've been working on a little bit of #DigitalArchaeology; after a lengthy hiatus offline, almost 2 years of evening & weekend work, the old Yahoo! GeoPlanet Data, AKA WhereOnEarth, AKA WOE, is now back online at a new home. Say hello to WoePlanet ... woeplanet.org
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I've been working on a little bit of #DigitalArchaeology; after a lengthy hiatus offline, almost 2 years of evening & weekend work, the old Yahoo! GeoPlanet Data, AKA WhereOnEarth, AKA WOE, is now back online at a new home. Say hello to WoePlanet ... woeplanet.org
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If you're interested, all the code is on GitHub at github.com/woeplanet and the data can be also be grabbed at github.com/woeplanet-data; see github.com/woeplanet-data/wo… for details of all the data repos; that's 64 GB in 6,072,080 GeoJSON files. Phew.
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Gary Gale retweeted
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1/ To mix things up a bit on this site, we thought we'd experiment with using Fridays to post the occasional thread about geo topics we're often asked about. Today we'll start with one everyone thinks is simple, but really isn't: reverse geocoding 🧵🗺️⬅️
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Much WOEID fun was had with @freyfogle, managed to namecheck @StevenFeldman and @thisisaaronland but mentioned Yahoo Geo, FireEagle and Dopplr without name checking @twbell, @tomcoates and @mattb. How could I forget? #SincereApologies
🌍🎧🗣️ This week's @geomob podcast (Episode 37) is now out. @freyfogle and @vicchi chat about the Whereonearth dataset, the influence it had, and what happened to it. A fun walk down neogeo memory lane. thegeomob.com/podcast/episod…
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Only a few days late watching and I haven’t seen the score yet. Fingers crossed for a great season #Chargers #lachargers #gobolts instagram.com/p/CFK4fj5pZVH/…
This morning I have coffee and am being watched by the Yahoo Yeureka duck and the @kamma_data llama as I vaguely remember something called “commuting”
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Just another normal day out buying coffee and cake in Teddington. @ Gosia's Cafe&deli instagram.com/p/CAhw5_2Jn9p/…
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Earlier this week I wrote about open data, web maps, #Covid19 and @coronafriend for @OrdnanceSurvey and this afternoon they published it. A nice way to end another week of #LockDown
ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/c…
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Ahh .. nothing like the personal touch of an email which starts “Dear Example First Name” .... @ Teddington, Middlesex instagram.com/p/B_iHaK3pdEq/…
I wonder what a syay is? @ M&S Teddington instagram.com/p/B_fe5qnpocf/…