Robin Hawkes

This detailed tutorial from Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) shows how to take OpenTopography point cloud data and use it to create your own DEM. From points to pixels — creating digital elevation models from OpenTopography point cloudsLand Information New Zealand has a partnership with

Take an obscure development law and combine it with misaligned polygons. And what do you get? A way to divert tax breaks that were meant to help the poor. It’s hard to believe that this was even allowed to happen in the first

This map of tsunamis in Google Earth visualises both the cause and effects of these (mostly) natural disasters. The article contains a detailed write-up of how they collected and manipulated the data to create the maps. Visualizing tsunamis is all about capturing cause and

I came for the maps, I stayed for the story. This article from the New York Times provides insight in to a growing zoning issue in the US — there’s just simply too many lots dedicated to single-family housing. Cities Start to Question an

The Open Geospatial Consortium are currently looking at creating a specification for the encoding and publishing of vector tiles. As things stand, this specification will be based upon the Mapbox Vector Tiles specification. It’s as yet unclear what impact this will have on

After systematically failing to attribute OpenStreetMap in their maps, Facebook may be given notice of their breach of the ODbL licence. The resulting discussion on the OSM mailing list is both long and interesting, highlighting how the issue of attribution goes far beyond Facebook

You may have seen those cool The Pudding visualisations doing the rounds. In this post Matt Daniels from The Pudding — who has the most job titles I think I’ve seen recently — breaks down how he and his team utilise a combination of Mapbox

After committing to releasing their MasterMap product as open data, Ordnance Survey has been working on a new hub to replace their existing OpenData portal. On top making data downloading easier (finally!), they’ll also be introducing new APIs for consuming data as WFS,