The last few days have been spent attending the Turing Festival on Friday, and a quick trip to meet up with some OSM folks at State of the Map Scotland on Saturday.

Earlier in the summer, Sustrans release their iPhone App, which we were very pleased to develop on their behalf. The app distinguishes itself in using the Ordnance Survey derived Sustrans mapping; for many applications in the UK, the accuracy and clarity of OS mapping is unsurpassable.

Having built a framework for presenting OS mappings within iPhone apps, we're now very pleased to be working on a similar framework for Android, and our first customer project using this is planned for release later in 2011.

The Turing Festival has been covered widely, it's a valiant attempt to integrate the Scottish Tech community with the Festival of Festivals that is Edinburgh in August. I only had time to attend the business track on Friday, and while there were some excellent talks, as well as one that annoyed me immensely in its techno-utopian shallowness, it came off much more as a conventional biz conference event that happened at the same time as the festival than a "festival" per se. I think it would be hard to be more on a first attempt, but I'd love to see someone try. Could one address the work of Turing or Gödel in something of the way of Copenhagen ?

State of the Map is the annual gathering of people interested in the OpenStreetMap project. Over the last decade, this project has mapped large parts of the world co-operatively and openly, producing an array of data and tools which provide geographical insight and some amazing possibilities. The CycleStreets project and its smartphone apps are in large part possible because of the existence of OSM as both usable data and as a map for overlaying route images. Whereas the database that goes to build Ordnance Survey maps is proprietary, in OSM it is free in the sense of open.