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Ed Parsons
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Ed Parsons's personal blog at edparsons.com covers data. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Ed Parsons' blog on geo and mapping topics, including Google Map Maker versus OpenStreetMap and the German Street View opt-out. Commenters cite it as background on Google's mapping practices.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ed Parsons is a Digital Geographer, a Geospatial Technology Advisor and Keynote Speaker. A Board level technology executive, specialist in Maps and Location based systems and Open Data Policy.Ed was Google's Geospatial Technologist, with responsibility for evangelising Google’s mission to organise t
What Hacker News says?
Some brief background… Google Map Maker is a map crowd-sourcing project which was originally targeted at countries with poor commercial map coverage. It produces a closed end product [0]. OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a map crowd-sourcing project which produces an end product with an open data license. Advantages of Map Maker include that Google can create maps derived from commercial satellite imagery products, Google has…
Comment linking /2008/06/what-map-maker-is-is-not/
on “Stop Google's Exploitation of Open Communities”Submitted Well done Ordnance Survey - derived rules clarified.. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is a relevant blog post from Ed Parsons, one of the guys that Google pays to think and talk about Geo-related stuff: http://www.edparsons.com/2010/09/germany-doomed-never-to-inn...
Comment linking /2010/09/germany-doomed-never-to-innovate/
on “Several Hundred Thousand Germans Opt Out of Google Street View”