Geotagged Greetings from Southampton
Comments(3) I’m in Southampton for the 2007 Computing Applications in Archaeology UK Chapter Conference. This is always a really interesting and often inspiring get together with a mix of commercial archaeologists such as myself and academic archaeologists (they normally have the best presentations).
There’s wifi available in my lovely salubrious Travelodge room, so I’ll aim to post some feedback on the first day’s talks tomorrow evening.
This post is also exciting for me, because I’m experimenting with the Geopress plugin for Wordpress. I first heard about it a few weeks ago but on my train journey today I read Andrew Turner’s great O’Reilly Shortcut book on Neogeography and that convinced me to give it a go…
I have to say that I really enjoyed Andrew’s book. He manages to cover the spectrum of “Neogeography” from the very basic intro to some reasonably high-end ideas such as microformats in a consistently easy and pleasant style. I learnt a lot from it, and there were certainly a few things I’m going to try (Geopress is the first).
Anyhow, here goes with the map:
Look forward to hearing about it Jo. Would have liked to be there myself. Thanks for the tip about GeoPress!
Hi, glad you liked the book and it encouraged you to delve more into sharing your maps.
What types of applications and uses do you currently use in Archaeology? I’m very interested in the actual uses of mapping/Neogeography in various fields.
Steve:
Glad you could stop by! Hopefully I’ll be together enough to post about today’s talks in a minute- all very interesting.
Andrew:
Also glad you could stop by!
We’re investigating a whole range of different mapping options really, for all sorts of things from basic data dissemination through to spatial analysis. I’m most interested in the backend stuff like PostgreSQL for storing and disseminating the data, then using a whole range of different mapping products ranging from desktop GIS to web-based mapping for viewing it. I’m particularly interested in Openlayers because it has google-like capabilities but we can use it freely on our internal networks and (to my mind) have more control over it. Otherwise, I’m keen to use wfs for sharing our data with other units and interested parties (like Steve!)- but we need to agree on what data standards to adopt if that’s going to work…