We are delighted to welcome Harry Wood to Placr as a Senior Developer. Harry, lately of CloudMade has great experience of web technology, databases and open source mapping which will be invaluable to Placr’s development efforts. Harry continues to play an important role in OpenStreetMap developments, most recently in Brazil and following the Haiti earthquake. Harry will be working with us on API and business development. Welcome on board!
Harry Wood joins Placr
February 1st, 2010Placr play leading role in open data releases
January 29th, 2010Phew! It’s been quite a month. As we develop business models for collecting and adding value to travel information, both local and central government have been busy releasing large quantities of public data through the London DataStore and data.gov.uk. Jonathan was heavily involved in the launch of the London DataStore as Chair of the event: you can see him introducing Boris Johnson and interviewing Sir Simon Milton in the coverage of the launch.
Placr are very well positioned to exploit these developments as we have a great deal of experience in capturing, rationalising and analysing complex real time data sets. We are working on a number of significant opportunities in this area at the moment, and hope to open some services within a few weeks in association with OpenTravel. It’s going to be an interesting year!
Welcome to Placr
December 14th, 2009After many months in ’stealth mode’ while we developed the business model and put our financing in place, we are delighted to open Placr’s webpages to the outside world. We hope these pages will give you more information about the skills and the value we can bring to location: please get in touch if we can help you!