Geodata, privacy and all that

For those who follow geo-news, Strava made the headlines for all the wrong reasons recently. Joseph…

Stop AI scraping your Internet data

Internet-scraped & hand-created illustrations, 45: Fulton County…

Drones and small satellites for next generation remote sensing

Introduction

Taking measurements from the Earth’s surface is by no means a new idea. The idea of remote sensing has been around for several decades. We should consider the imaging of the…

Putting the Horse back before the Cart in Data Science

Open data mapping workshop

This is the opening page to class notes I just posted on DropBox with data.

The web is safer than the desktop

I rode this weekend the bullet train to Paris that put Bordeaux within two hours. And did the French…

Future-proofing Petroleum Infrastructure

While the price of oil, OPEC deal-or-no-deal with/out Russia…

The Internet? It’s complicated!

In 1986 the local telco optically wired the city of Calgary, W Canada, for free, betting it would recoup…