Proposed change to the Who’s On First data license

Who’s On First is becoming a Linux Foundation project and proposes to change to the Community Data License Agreement – Permissive, Version 1.0 data license

This is a blog post by nvkelso. It was published on August 21, 2018 and tagged whosonfirst, wof, license, linuxfoundation and cdla.

Three Steps Backwards, One Step Forwards; a Tale of Data Consistency and JSON Schema

Learning to use [JSON Schema] by reading its specification is like learning to drive a car by looking at its blueprints.

This is a blog post by vicchi. It was published on May 25, 2018 and tagged elasticsearch, json, node, js, whosonfirst, schema, wof, validation, data type, consistency and python.

The Why of the How

One of the things I’ve taken to saying in recent years is that sometimes we make mistakes because of circumstance and sometimes we make bad decisions because of reasons… so please just write those reasons down somewhere.

This is a blog post by thisisaaronland. It was published on February 27, 2018 and tagged elasticsearch, go, python, spelunker, whosonfirst and why-of-the-how.

WOF in a Box (part 3)

The Spelunker was rebuilt on a bare Ubuntu 16.04 Linux server, following Dan’s WOF in a Box instructions and everything worked without a hitch. Along the way, I made some updates to the “fetching and indexing data” piece specifically to make things faster and easier for people who just want to work with the data as-is and don’t need to make updates.

This is a blog post by thisisaaronland. It was published on February 20, 2018 and tagged spelunker, sqlite, whosonfirst and wof-in-a-box.

Privatezen

The first week I started at Mapzen, in 2015, I remembering thinking I wonder if I can swap out each one of third-party services used by Privatesquare with an equivalent Mapzen service? The answer, at the time, was “No”. It was a useful reminder of the work we had set out for ourselves.

This is a blog post by thisisaaronland. It was published on February 02, 2018 and tagged electron, mapzen, privacy, privatesquare, sqlite, venues and whosonfirst.

Who’s On First, Chapter Two

It means that while things are not literally “better than yesterday” – since yesterday you didn’t have to read this blog post – it means that things are hopefully better than the yesterday of the last time a service you came to depend on had to shutter its doors.

This is a blog post by thisisaaronland. It was published on January 02, 2018 and tagged whosonfirst.