Harry Wood

Welcome to Harry Wood's website. The blog is probably more interesting than the rest of this site... and the blog isn't very interesting so what does that tell you?

Recent blog posts:

Cycling to work in London
I started cycling to work about four weeks ago. Yes. I took the plunge and became a “London cyclist”. Cost was the first thing putting me off. I considered a dodgy Portobello road market £50 bike, or a more ligit second hand one for ... read more 08/26/2010 03:09
Talks and thoughts on OpenStreetMap mapping parties
(photo Copyright All rights reserved by SINFOGEO)A few weeks ago we had a big OpenStreetMap conference, the annual “State Of The Map”. This year it was in sun-baked Girona. “State Of The Map 2010 felt like a coming together of all ... read more 07/24/2010 13:21
Ruby code for converting to UK Ordnance Survey coordinate systems from WGS84?
Ruby code for converting to UK Ordnance Survey coordinate systems from WGS84? It’s one of those things I’d assumed would be a five minute search -> cut-n-paste job. But no. Well now you can cut & paste from here. Using Proj4 and ... read more 06/29/2010 08:42
Paul Downey and London Wiki Wednesdays
Last Wednesday was London wiki wednesday again. We struggled a bit with organisation this time. The usual to’ing-and-fro’ing around finding sponsors and hosts was confounded by a problem with the website. SocialText foolishly switched it ... read more 05/10/2010 10:22
Aid Information Challenge
I’m at the Aid Information Challenge day watching the final hack presentations. This seems to be part of a series of hacking events happening at the Guardian offices, following on from rewiredstate National Hack the Government day (where I ... read more 04/10/2010 11:06

OpenStreetMap diary:

Old and new faces at the OSM 6th Anniversary Party
From now on I think we need to present ourselves to be less beer centric Ah crap! Well it was the OpenStreetMap ... read more 08/26/2010 17:28
Anniversary party this Friday + London cycle hire mapping
On Friday (this Friday!) it's the OpenStreetMap 6th Anniversary Birthday party! We'll be celebrating in London, and as I said ... read more 08/18/2010 05:41
BBQ bash last weekend. OSM anniversary Fri 20th
I'm pretty pleased at how the BBQ turned out on Saturday. I woke up to some of the most miserable weather I've seen in a long ... read more 08/04/2010 14:20
Charing Cross Mapping Evening
Rather too soon after all the excitement of State Of The Map, we had a London mapping evening in Charing Cross. No time to take a ... read more 07/26/2010 02:15
State Of The Map 2010 in Girona
Last week I had a few sleepless nights because I was buzzing with OpenStreetMap thoughts and when I did sleep it was with mappy ... read more 07/20/2010 17:00