The two things I've been working on are an EOGEO project spurred on by a trip to Tokyo following the Chicago meeting, and the MIT Museum Collaborative Mapping Project.

The MIT Museum project is pretty interesting. Here are some excerpts from the draft project description (to be posted on the site soon):

Our goal is to help everyone experience the past and current richness of MIT, in-place or from a distance, using digital information (indexed by location, time, and thematically) organized into exhibits and tours; and to provide the means to allow contributions from the MIT community to a growing, collaboratively constructed and maintained corpus of historical material.

We wish to turn MIT into a dynamic museum whose “exhibits” will be constructed not just by museum curators and other experts but also by the entire MIT community. A rich repository of digital information and stories will make it possible a real “Infinite Corridor,” meaning almost limitless ways to explore and understand the Institute-past, present and future.

The project has four phases, spanning from now until 2011. Right now we're in a planning/project definition and fundraising phase. You'll hear more about this in later blog entries. Be assured that open source standards-based geo software will play a big role.

The EOGEO project involves developing a geospatial "appliance". I.e. something that's as easy to plug in and use as a toaster. I started talking about this about a year or so ago. We recently received some seed funding to work on this so I've been loading up a Mac Mini with MapServer, GeoServer, GeoNetwork, and PostGIS with varying degrees of success (or I should say varying degrees of speed, they all work, it's just taken me a little while to get them running). I'm loading up raster and vector data and configuring the various bits and pieces to know about the data. This is all so that I can figure out where the hard parts are so we can start working on making everything easier to use. (And the hard parts are not difficult to find...) Tyler Mitchell's Web Mapping Illustrated is coming in handy here.

I've been trying to get the Mini into a demoable state so I can take it with me to Tokyo next week where I'll be participating in a Digital Earth symposium hosted by Prof. Hiromichi Fukui

In the meantime, I'm behind on cleaning up the GeoRSS material and have started the tiling list.