Mapping Hacks

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Credits

Jo Walsh is a freelance hacker and software artist who started out building

web systems for the Guardian, the ICA, and state51 in London. Jo is trying

to combine her interests in maps, spatial annotation on the semantic web,

Wi-Fi geolocation, public transport planning, and bots into something

resembling coherence.

Contributors

• Drew Celley (http://www.zhrodague.net/~drew) writes hacks, articles,

and software in the South Side of Pittsburgh, PA. He produces videos

for tv.seattlewireless.net, records music with bandnight.com, and devel-

ops interesting Internet technologies. Drew is the co creator of WiFi-

Maps.com, a popular web-based geographic map of Wi-Fi usage. He

generally works as a Unix sysadmin and netnanny for startups, dot-

coms, established companies, and mega-corporations, while maintain-

ing his sanity and creative drive. In his spare time, he can be found

searching for his next contract.

• Dav Coleman is a world-traveling hacker-poet based in San Francisco.

He has worked for large corporations (IBM, Verizon Wireless), co-

founded a successful software company (Synthematix), and currently

does independent consulting. Dav can be found at AkuAku.org.

• Rael Dornfest is Chief Technology Officer at O’Reilly Media. He

assesses, experiments, programs, fiddles, fidgets, and writes for the

O’Reilly Network and various O’Reilly publications. Rael is Series Edi-

tor of the O’Reilly