Blogs on Adrià Mercader

Jump to: Reading | Traveling | Running | Working I’ve been slacking off on these yearly updates for a while, but this year I have a bit more time in my hands (more on this later), so here we go.

I got a new job!

This is the second part in a series of posts exploring how to integrate Machine Learning functionalities into data catalogs.

If you cut across all the tiresome hype and snake oil marketing that surrounds the AI / Machine Learning field you can find valuable techniques that can provide value to software projects.

Next week will be my last one working at the Open Knowledge Foundation.

A new version of ckanext-spatial (2.1.0) was released this week.

(Jump to the English version below) El que necessitava era prou senzill: Com puc afegir les festes laborals a Catalunya (incloent les festes locals) al meu calendari des d’un lloc oficial?

This is a bit embarrassing but I’ll post it anyway in case it helps somebody out there having a slow day (or myself from the future who might forget it).

Jump to: Traveling | Reading | Running | Working Another year flew by!

Here’s a news roundup from the Munibot front, everybody’s favourite Twitter geo bots.

Records show that I joined OpenStreetMap back in 2008, but I never was a very active contributor.

For the past six months the Munibot crew has been humming along, regularly tweeting beautiful imagery of Spanish and Catalan municipalities.

A couple of weeks ago I submitted a pull request to the main CKAN repo, which was promptly reviewed and merged by my tech team colleague Sergey.

Jump to: Traveling | Reading | Running | Working The Three Kings brought some presents last night, finally bringing the Christmas holidays to their end in this part of the world.

I wrote Munibot, a small Twitter bot that tweets aerial imagery of municipalities (or any other administrative region).

PostgreSQL JSON fields are a really convenient way of storing structured data alongside traditional row / column values.

Our youngest son is at that magical stage when his speaking is really starting to pick up.

Jump to: Reading | Traveling | Running | Working The year is ending so it’s time to look back. 2019 has been an intense year and overall I’m happy with what it brought.

I’ve been listening to podcasts pretty frequently for some years now, but I wouldn’t say I’m an avid consumer of them.

Well here we are.

First things first, Newcastle City Council plans to close down 10 libraries across the city as part of a wider series of budget cuts.

After a long day in front of your laptop or just to think of a fresh approach to that annoying bug, what’s better than going for a run?

I finally managed to set aside some time to read OpenLayers Cookbook, written by Antonio Santiago.

(For the eager ones, I’ve written a new version of WikiGeoLinks with Leaflet and Bootstrap.

Let’s be completely honest, we all knew it was going to happen.

I recently needed a bit of geoprocessing for which PostGIS turned out to be the perfect tool.

Here is a really nice video produced by the Open Knowledge Foundation introducing Open Government Data. ( {"base_state": {"language": "ca"}, "video_url": "http://vimeo.com/21711338"} ) Notice the subtitles options below the video.

The past Friday and Saturday took place in Hilversum, near Amsterdam, the first Europeana Hackathon.

Probably not.