On the 1st day of Christmas Astun gave to me
A Ramblers Case Study – we’ve helped discover 50,000 lost rights of way, maybe they will help Santa reach you safely on the 25th.
A Ramblers Case Study – we’ve helped discover 50,000 lost rights of way, maybe they will help Santa reach you safely on the 25th.
So we’re all locked down, to some degree or another, and our favourite FOSS4G conferences (due to be held this year in Calgary and Valmiera inter alia) are cancelled…. what to do? The OSGeo:UK committee, seeing a chance to organise a conference without having to worry about catering/ venues/ accommodation/ swag/ entertainment, decided to do what…
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Background At the end of November I was asked by Francois Prunayre at Titellus to help organise and manage a 3-day code-sprint with the aim of improving GeoNetwork documentation. Documentation can be problematic for projects, even open source, where the majority of the work is done by volunteers. Updating documentation is rarely a priority for…
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I joined Astun two and a half years ago and being a bit of a data geek (having led MapAction’s Data Circle for a number of years pre-children), one of the things that attracted me to the position was Astun’s track record in metadata and their solutions with the Environment Agency / Defra and the…
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Six members of the Astun team recently headed en mass to the Free and Open Source Software for Geo (FOSS4G) UK conference in Edinburgh – and we came back with a 7th! FOSS4G is a great forum to find out all the latest on what is going on in the OSGeo community and to spread…
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This year, Astun staff are giving 4 presentations and 1 workshop at FOSS4G UK Edinburgh to share with the community what we are passionate about as individuals, and as an organisation. At Astun we believe that we are the ‘Experts in Place’, but to live up to this claim we must do everything but stay…
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