Wandering down under
It’s official. I’m moving. The fine folks at Lonely Planet have convinced me to abandon good old Edmonton and join their innovation lab in Sydney, Australia.
I’ve been working remotely with Lonely Planet for 18 months now, helping geo-tag their vast array of travel content and building a platform for expressing this content in spatial ways. You can see it already at work on lonelyplanet.tv, Hotels & Hostels, the lonelyplanet.com world guide, and our facebook app. As of June, I’ll be joining them on-site as digital mapping manager and looking to push this work to maturity as well as finding new and interesting ways to provide location-based services for Lonely Planet’s intrepid traveler community.
As for Spatial North, it’s going into a bit of hibernation but I’ll be leaving enough lights on to keep Quikmaps ticking, so if you’re a fan, don’t worry, keep doodling!
Matt said,
May 17, 2008 @ 3:14 am
Quikmaps seems to no longer be functioning - assume you’ve now trashed it?
ken said,
May 17, 2008 @ 3:25 am
Hi Matt,
I just opened it up and logged in - what’s not working for you?
Thierry said,
June 2, 2008 @ 2:51 am
Hello Ken,
just a small email to thank you for all the work you have one since 2 or 3years on quimaps ‘ Web service.
My site www.cages-wifi.com would clearly have 5 times less traffic if I had not your map service.
Nice to hear you do business with lonely planet.
Thierry, Paris, Francd