On Thursday and Friday I spent the time with the Iron Ore group, mostly looking at data, data standards and some analysis projects.  We have been working with Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore group for some time now – since 2005 – and have been supporting them in this environmental data area throughout that time.  This was a good opportunity to catch up and just tweak a few different areas we’re working in, and to get some good plans in place for the rest of the year, and for the new year – which is not that far away now!

As part of this trip, I was also looking at how they currently use the field data capture system we’ve set up for them, which is based on the Biological Data Recording System and is supplemented with custom mobile applications for their use.  I talked to a range of different people up there about what they could use this for, ranging from survey work to environmental incident reporting, and we have some good plans for the next few months about some of those.

On the weekend I got to be a little indulgent, and as a volunteer with Birdlife Western Australia I helped with the Birdwatch 2012 event.  I’ve been involved in five of these Birdwatch events now (Karratha Station, Pannawonnica, Hamersley Station, Perth and this years one), and they are always a great event.  Leading a team of interested people around the bush near Miaree Pool on Sunday was a real highlight – nothing makes me feel better about our work with people than actually getting out into the bush and doing that work myself!

Throughout the trip, I used our Android application on my mobile phone to record all the birds I saw along the way.  This is always a great test of the software, and on this trip I recorded 95 species, and 291 records and 1,504 individual birds in four days (as overlaid on Google Maps below – the points cluster when you display them to save on processing).

Any trip that involves field time is a really great trip for me.  It really keeps me in touch with our clients, and in touch with the people that do the work we support with technology.  I can’t wait for next year’s one, and hopefully I get to go again!

Piers

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The most interesting update came early, with the presentation about the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security project.  Grit has been keeping her eye on this one for some time, but it was news to a lot of the audience. You can find out more at http://www.gmes.info/, but the short of is that the program will send up five new satellites (known as the Sentinels), and all of the data will be freely available and open to all to use.  This was touted as a game-changer for the earth observation industry.  Have a look at the launch video here:

Let me reiterate these five new satellites will produce open, freely available data.  The first launch is scheduled for 2013, so start buying up hard drives now for all this free data you’ll be getting.

At the end of the day was another game changer; and something that I am personally quite interested in, the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, or drones) in remote sensing.  We’ve previously looked at drones for field work, but the Civil Aviation Safety Authority requirements (which a lot of organisations currently ignore) meant we shelved that program until we get the accreditation we need to move this forward.  The guys who presented here showed just how much effort is required to get this accreditation, and showed some of the great results they can get from the systems in place.  So this really got me thinking about it again, and I think you’ll see some more from us in this (very low orbit) space in the future.

The interesting thing about the OGEO presentations were the quality of the work being done in this area, both in Europe and back here in Australia.  There were some great presentations about doing things like using WorldView 2 imagery to undertake a wide range of different tasks (from bathymetric mapping to algae detection), using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to measure storm strengths, and even how hard it is to run a receiving station in Svalbard, where employees commute via dogsled and carry a rifle to ward off polar bears.

I asked Charlotte and Grit to give me some highlights from the conference from their view as well, and they agreed that the presentations on the UAVs and the Sentinel program were two of the main highlights.  Some of the other areas included:

• The OGEO portal (more on that in a second),
• The presentations on the WorldView 2 satellite imagery uses in a couple of areas – Leah Glass from GeoImage gave a great talk about environmental change detection using time series imagery,
• The work being done on SAR data; being able to forecast and hindcast ocean currents, and its application in the area of ocean modelling in general,
• Again, the presentations on Svalbard from Paul Whitaker; which as well as indicating the dangers of an arctic commute also talked about timeliness of getting imagery out there into the public domain in an era of heightened scrutiny on environmental performance.

Now, about the OGEO portal – another announcement at the event was that OGEO has opened their new web portal at http://www.ogeo-portal.eu/, where they hope to start sharing information about detection methods, build networks of people and to start collaborating.  It’s a great step forward and if you are at all interested in remote sensing – for oil and gas or other industries – I’d encourage you to sign up to the portal.

For all three of us, OGEO was a great opportunity – that is very rarely presented here in Perth – to hear from overseas people and local people, and to network and to discuss how to collaborate in what was quite an open, friendly environment.  It was definitely worth us going, and I hope one day we get an opportunity to go to another one.

For more information on the event, feel free to drop me an email, send me a tweet, or connect to me on LinkedIn.

Piers

Late Edit: Peter Hausknecht, the Chairman of OGEO, asked me to indicate that the OGEO presentations will be available here in a few weeks time.  Other material on previous workshops can be found here (2011) and here (2010).

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I have to say up front that this was one of the best spatial conferences I’ve been to in a long time – it will certainly stay in the forefront of my mind as a valuable way to spend the day.  Anyone who has a chance should get to this event in the future.

The Spatial Information Day (SID) attracted over 360 delegates, a dozen sponsors and some impressive speakers for a local conference.  The first speaker was futurist Craig Rispin, who set the tone for the day.  I enjoy listening to futurists, it’s usually entertaining and thought provoking.  Craig was a good way to start the day and start thinking about the future.  Did you know that futurists can get accredited – and the accreditation takes 10 years to see if their predictions come true?

Then in the technical concurrent sessions, we heard from Helen Owens (Office of Spatial Policy), David Harvey (leading the Spatial Data Sharing Initiative in South Australia), and Professor Andrew Millington (Flinders University).  These were three powerful talks that set the national, local and future context for spatial and left me thinking about a wide range of things to take away from these talks.  There were some plain truths, visions and great ideas and initiatives discussed in this session.

In the post-lunch session, I was then inspired by the Young Professionals stream (called, very aptly, the Future of Spatial).  Fabrice Marre’s volunteer work at DeforestAction (http://dfa.tigweb.org/) – where he volunteered to groundtruth data provided by schoolkids in Australia who used satellite imagery to identify illegal logging – was a great example of how great the spatial industry can be.  Dean Howell gave the young professionals very sensible tips on how to apply for a job – as an employer it was good to see this, and I agree with everything Dean recommended people do, like write cover letters!  Finally, Thuong Hoang got up and blew us all away with wearable computers for augmented reality – I was completely engrossed once he overlaid NDVI imagery on a view through the goggle setup!

My final concurrent session saw Ben Plush and James Paul give two exceptional talks on using 2D and 3D data not only for visualisation, but also for analysis.  These were two great talks showing what spatial should really be used for – solving problems.  Ben’s focussed on determining how water allocation could be done in the Eyre Peninsula, while James looked at the impact of climate change on flood regimes in a small coastal town.  Both were things I’d really like to have had the opportunity to work on myself, just from the fact that this was really using all sorts of facets of spatial work to answer problems.

The panel session at the end of the day was pretty interesting.  There were some interesting discussions about the fact that there is a lot of camaraderie in South Australia (SA), and willingness to collaborate.  It was quite thought provoking to listen to some of these comments, although I wasn’t game to tweet when there was a massive screen in the background with our tweets shown on it (conference organisers please note; both times I’ve seen this done it kills participation on Twitter).  I was Tweeting a fair bit throughout the conference, as shown below, so you will already know most of this if you follow my Twitter feed (you can do that by just going to http://twitter.com/piers_higgs in your browser, or you can see all of the Tweets for the whole conference at https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/SSSI_SA.

It was pretty evident to me by the end of the conference part of the day that the spatial community in SA is leading the way in collaboration and in doing things in a smart way.  This was confirmed with the SA Spatial Excellence Awards that evening, where, for example, they presented the Young Professional of the Year Award to three Young Professionals.  That in itself goes a long way to demonstrating how well SA is doing engaging their future professionals and doing things a bit out of the ordinary.

I spent a lot of time wondering why SA was doing things so well and why it was all so impressive.  In the end, I think it boils down to two things; economics and collaboration.

There isn’t a mining boom in SA like there is over in Western Australia, and as a result, the SA community has to make do with limited resources.  With limited resources, you have to find the smartest and most efficient way to do things, and this is something I saw plenty of.  I think we have been pretty well off in other parts of Australia for some time, and as a result there has been a lack of incentive to innovate and improve – unlike SA, who are doing it well, from commercial projects through to tertiary education.

True collaboration was visible through the conference, not the washed out shadow of collaboration I see more commonly.  In SA, this was truly about helping each other, really trying to reach success together rather than using someone else as a means to build one’s own portfolio or bottom line.  I was very impressed with the amount of true collaboration I saw, where people really put themselves out there to help others.  It was infectious and inspiring to be in a community where you could see that people just really wanted to help each other, and I think this echoes some of the great results we see in the open source community we participate in.

The spatial community in SA have a lot that they can teach the rest of the industry.

Just in closing, I’d like to personally thank the organising committee, especially Penny Baldock and Gary Maguire.  It was an impressive conference and I really felt like I was part of the community for the day.

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GEMG

GEMG is a conference held every couple of years, and includes mine site environmental staff and other professionals, including the regulators.  It’s been a well-attended conference in the past and we have been before as an attendee, but this year we went as a speaker – and were not surprised to find it just as well attended this year!

Tom gave a presentation about data management to the attendees, and looked at the deluge of data that they face.  In Tom’s presentation, he worked through some of the steps you can take to create appropriate solutions, such as defining your questions, looking at the data required to answer them, and then the processes and eventually technology required to help manage address these questions more efficiently and effectively. Tom’s slides are below.

What was also very impressive from the GEMG is that Tom passed around a few stubbie holders during his talk to ask people to donate money to the Cancer Council Morning tea that we held this morning.  GEMG attendees donated over $780 to the cause (which we will be matching when we finalise the donations by Friday)! So a big thanks to all the GEMG attendees for their charity!

WASSIC

WASSIC was almost entirely oriented to the surveying industry this year, so it was a hard decision to send anyone along, to be honest.  In the end, I attended both days due to my commitments there, and Andrew came down for the Friday.  It’s worth noting that we left early on both days, and that we’d really struggle to justify attendance next year if the same style of program continues.

You can see some of the conversation around the conference on Twitter at https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23wassic12

Anyway, on Day One in my role as a member of the Regional Management Group (RMG), I was helping to organise a Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA, http://www.spatialbusiness.org/) meeting during lunch.  While it wasn’t particularly well attended, it did give us some time to talk about education across the spatial industry, and to get some time to talk through a few miscommunications between attendees over time.  I hope this goes some way towards opening a few more doors for collaboration for SIBA and the industry – that’s why I joined the RMG.

On Day Two I ended up giving a keynote (I wasn’t quite expecting to be a keynote speaker, so good thing I checked the program beforehand), and talked about innovation.  I actually really enjoyed researching this talk, and nowadays I’m not too worried about getting up on stage to give them; as you can see…

In my presentation, I looked at where innovation comes from and has been involved throughout the history of our industry (looking at maps, surveying, IT hardware, spatial analysis and even SSSI), then looked at what innovation can do to industries (I pulled out my old typing pool/word processing/IT industry comparison), and then gave some pointers about where to look for innovation and how to look for it, citing our own efforts on the weekly review and sprint days. My slides are below.

It’s been a particularly busy week for presentations for me, with the presentations to Curtin and UWA students last week (https://archive.gaiaresources.com.au/website/gaiaresources/newsarticle/669/) so I’m looking forward to getting out of the spotlight for a little while… but a question for you – what’s the best innovation you’ve seen in the spatial industry? Please leave us a comment below.

If you want to follow up on our presentations, please drop either Tom (email – Twitter), Andrew (email – Twitter) or myself (email – Twitter) a note.

Piers

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No matter how you count the cost, we were always going to be there in some form. Tom has been very active in the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute national and regional committees and in helping bring, learn and run the GIS Programme Management course in Australia. For myself, there were two drawcards – the nomination I received for the Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Award for Spatial Professional of the Year (won by Tony Bitz, congratulations!), and also the curiosity I have with what the SSSI is doing. Although, I would have to say, it’s a bit sad I had to travel that many tonnes of CO₂ away to find out the latter.

I also made the most of this trip to go and talk to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food about their issues with Kauri dieback, which in a sense is similar to the work we did with South Coast NRM on dieback here in Western Australia.

SSSC 2011 Highlights?

So, what were the things we came away with as highlights?

• Plenaries – both of us thought the Plenary speakers were the highlights.  For me, Manfred Ehlers talk on Friday was the highlight.  His observation that there are four waves of change (hyperconnectivity, digital economy, open source software, and social networks) combining into a perfect storm of change was the key point I will take away from the conference.  I also liked Mike Goodchild’s observations on how we seem to have dropped the ball on the science behind spatial.
• Talks from the Victorians – Cathy Crooks and Denise McKenzie gave a series of talks about what is happening – or has already happened – in Victoria.  Their VicMaps API project is all about open source and collaboration, a theme that was pervasive through their work.  The Spatial Marketplace continues to be developed, but looks great even after just 1.5 months of work, and their older projects like GPSNet are quite visionary.  I thought we were good at spatial here in WA, but, boy, was I wrong!
• Open Source – New Zealand has a small, but passionate, group of people who are embracing open source software.  The open source session – which was organised at the last minute, and was not something SSSI had thought to include – was a good overview of where NZ is at generally.  It was really inspiring as an open source supporter to hear that institutions are taking it up seriously, including government ones!

There are a bunch of other things that we really liked, like the powhiri at the start and the generally high level of integration of Maori cultures in the conference.  That, and the enjoyable time we had a Te Papa (both for the dinner, and when I went of my own volition), and a fabulous dinner at the Ambeli.  Wellington is a very scenic place, too…

And one thing we have to mention here is how social media worked in practice, in particular, Twitter. Take a look at these figures from the last 500 tweets from the SSSC (grabbed from http://archivist.visitmix.com/28ea2dfb/2/User):

Tom and I alone provided around 30% of the Tweets from this conference, but we had engagement from people well outside of the conference. We also used it to get some good feedback on presentations, projects, and even the next SSSC from using it.  If you don’t have some presence in social media, then you are seriously missing out on some great stuff, that could be very useful for your business, assignment, career, or just that next project.

Was it worth it?

To be honest, yes, this conference was worth attending.  It was a great event in terms of the plenaries, the topics being discussed and the people that we met there.  It really gave us a range of things to think about for the future of Gaia Resources.

As a result of the conference, I also got to think about a couple of issues that I believe we really do need to start doing something about as an industry. This next bit is probably going to ruffle some feathers… but I think we’re grown up enough to take this as a bit of good-natured criticism with a few possible solutions thrown in.

So, who are we?

The ongoing issue of the identity of the “spatial industry” came up yet again and, yes, there was more navel gazing going on – but maybe, just maybe, this time we have a start of a solution. The whole “industry” struggles to explain itself to our wives, husbands, children, grandparents, clients, colleagues, friends and even to that weird uncle everyone has.   I do like Renee Bartolo’s suggestion, “We are the Science of Where”, but I personally like “We are the Custodians of Where”, implying we’re looking after it for the next generation, and the public, and others.

Tom and I share the similar opinions to those he put forward in his “GIS is Dead” presentation he did recently at Georabble, (which we will get him to record soon and put up on Youtube). “Spatial” is becoming commoditised, and that brings many risks and opportunities, as Andy Coote told us in his plenary session and in the workshop he ran (which Tom also attended). Put together calls to action from Mike Goodchild, Manfred Ehlers and Renee with opportunities presented by Andy Coote and, yes, even from Google, and we could really get this issue just sorted – and we need to start doing something.

I have another metaphor I roll out regularly, that compares the spatial industry to the typing pools that used to exist in the 1960s and 1970s. While this metaphor doesn’t really hold up under scrutiny, it makes you think – where are the typing pools today? They don’t exist because everyone is expected to be able to type (but, without training, you see people typing with two fingers), and everyone has word processing software. That’s the barrel of the gun we are looking down as an industry. Google Maps might just be the equivalent of Microsoft Word, and we might be the last few people stuck in the outdated typing pool… food for thought, anyway.

I tend to be more in Mike Goodchild’s camp (especially as a Geographer myself, among my other hats). We have a place in understanding and explaining the science, and in doing the “hard stuff”. I don’t think I mind not making quite so many maps these days, and I love using spatial technologies to solve people’s problems. We should be the ones leading this field, explaining the science, and being able to help solve problems.

Looking forward – i.e. let’s do something!

The ramifications for this “typing pool effect” are huge across our industry, and especially in our future leaders, including our SSSI Young Professionals. If this is a major change coming through our industry, you can imagine what this means for education of our future leaders.  As well as education, I think we need to see more innovation in the industry, so these two points are things that I think we should take forward and do something about, quickly.

Our future leaders need to be taught the “Science of Where”, but they also need to be taught to think outside of our traditional boxes, i.e. that “spatial is not special”, and other people are doing it better than us. And they need to be taught the new and appropriate tools to prepare them for this new environment.  So, universities, TAFEs, colleges, training groups, and everyone who teaches – keep up.  If you are a student, demand to be taught the cutting edge spatial technologies, learn about open source, and mashup data using Google Maps for your assignments.

For those of us who are already in the industry, it’s time we took our head out of our traditional boxes not just to look at the opportunities, but also so that we can help educate the next generation. We need to continue to work with younger professionals to help them. I was quite happy to see the President himself have a go at employers for not doing enough, but I also think that that should be backed by some action from SSSI.

At Gaia Resources, we have run a scholarship for 5 years to attract more first year students to the Spatial Sciences program at Curtin University. We hire students to work as paid casual staff, and I think we pay them well – so that they can see there is a future in their studies.  We refuse to hire them more than casually until they graduate, so they finish what they started and learn the “science” properly and holistically. We run professional development for all our staff, guiding them on how to choose their projects, and paying for them to go on courses and learn new things.

Where are the SSSI equivalents?  Where are the scholarships, the mentoring programs, the programs to encourage work experience for members – even just with each other, and where is the younger professional accreditation? There is no doubting that SSSI has done some good things, but at the moment, it’s not delivering the things we need to progress these issues.  With new events like Georabble and GeoNext already underway and delivering great value to attendees, there’s change already happening, and good things being done that deliver a large amount of value to the people who participate.  There is no doubting that SSSI has done some good things, but at the moment, it’s sitting on a knife edge of survival, and seems to remain blissfully unaware.

Those of us in the industry also desperately need to innovate, because if we don’t, then we’re definately going to be retiring early.  Innovation rarely happens within our industry – it usually comes from outside.  A few people have noticed the amount of innovation we’re putting out of Gaia Resources lately (Emergentweet, public transport mashups, using game rigs for serious aerial photography, and more to come), and that’s intentional. Although we haven’t commercialised these innovations – yet – it gives us good grounding in being innovative, and is building a culture of it. The more you do, the better you can do it. We have a bunch of new innovative projects planned in the near future, and I am strongly pushing for more.  The SSSC 2011 was a good way of starting to think outside the box, but we need more like that (bring on GeoNext!).

Despite the inflammatory rhetoric, I do think that there are many opportunities that this change will bring to our industry, if we’re ready to square up, seize them, and get things done.

We’ve already lost (or given away) control of our own destiny in the spatial industry. It’s time to take it back.

Piers

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The setting along side the channels of Amsterdam in the majestic Felix Meritis in combination with the small scale setup gave it a nice atmosphere. Besides the talks which ranged from native versus web, performance, design approach and the future of the mobile web there was also lots of room to talk to the speakers in person.

There is already a lot written  about the conference, therefore I will highlight the things that caught my  attention. A lot more can be found at the Mobilism website.

Highlights

“Mobile First” by Luke Wroblewski talked about how we should make the shift to designing for the mobile web  before the desktop web. Using lots of statistics he emphasized on the enormous growth rate of mobiles compared to desktops and laptops and the opportunities that come with it. Some of the advantages of putting mobile first would be that we have to deal with its constraints and therefore have more focus on what the user actually values most. The fact that mobiles are mobile gives the user more time and more places to use the mobile web. How does this affect the design? Mobile forces you to focus on the content apposed to graphical design. Interesting examples where given about how to get rid of for example buttons.

What caught my attention in Peter Paul Koch’s (PPK) presentation about “the future of the mobile web” was the things he said about how he thinks applications will be distributed in the future and that applications will be free. PPK sees a  significant decrease in the number of and specialization in the appstores (over 100 at the moment!) over time. People will likely start sharing apps via mediums like Blue Tooth and pay for data via for example sms instead. He also sees that carriers will play a big role in payments with the mobile in the future.

Stephanie Rieger took it even one step further in her presentation “beyond mobile”. Stephanie talks about how we should allow the user more control when designing for the mobile web. So many sorts of mobile device are connecting to the web nowadays that it is hard if not impossible for us to decide on the context in which the web is accessed. She  believes in setting a user experience baseline but also the functionality that lets the user give more control over things like data size/amount (e.g. YouTube’s HQ button), font types, font sizes and color schemes (e.g. BibilioType ) .  Also interesting to hear that there are a lot of people out there who’s sole connection to the web is via mobile! In a lot of countries data packages are still very expensive. Why not give the user some control in that regards and let them adjust data consumption, says  Stephanie.

A competitive advantage that keeps users coming back and spend more time using your web/application is web performance optimization.  Steve Souders talked extensively about this topic in his presentation “high performance mobile”.  He mentioned the negative effects of latency and talked about some interesting tools and techniques to counteract this. Have a look at  his  his new website Mobile Http Archive for some interesting statistics. Steve also predicts that people are going to expect near zero latency  in their experience which was elaborated on by Jared Spool when he talked about the Kano Model (A tool to predict user satisfaction) in his presentation “Mobile & UX: Inside the Eye of the Perfect Storm”.

Scott Jehl, a member of the Jquery team talked in his presentation “building tools for a changing web” about jQuery Mobile (JQM). JQM is a one code base framework  that can be used to build good looking mobile websites which work on a broad range of platforms.  JQM is build on top of the immensely popular Jquery Core library which is used in many websites around the globe. (And indeed by us for some of our mobile projects).

Mobilism was a great balance of technical talks and more abstract talk about where we are and what the future could look like for the mobile web. Definitely worth to keep your eye on the fire here!

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• Looking back – 2009 year in review from Directions Magazine

• Looking forward – Predictions for the year from James Fee

• Twitter have acquired Mixer Labs, creators of GeoAPI

• Geo.me Solutions have released a cool global climate data mashup

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I’ll miss working here, possibly not going to miss the pile of dead ants on my desk this morning, but will miss the atmosphere that is steadily growing as Piers builds Gaia Resources up further and further.

I hope that I’ve managed to help people out when I’ve been called on and Piers has my contact details should anyone want or need to get hold of me.

As you might know I’m hoping to compete for Great Britain in the Long Distance Triathlon World Championships here in Perth in October (http://www.ldworlds.org.au) followed by Ironman WA (http://www.ironmanwa.com/) in Busselton in December. If I make it to the Worlds then any support you can offer would be great, my tri club have promised to boo me if I’m wearing a British kit…. I should also be on the start line for the half marathon at the Perth City to Surf so might see a few of you there.

All the very best to you all. Is it time for the pub yet?

Tim

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8046782.stm

Nothing to do with the environment, it’s just cool stuff.

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We hope to followup a number of interesting ideas and work with a few of the people that we met in the coming months. All in all it was a successful presentation and gave Piers a good chance to practise some of the presentation skills that we all leant a few weeks ago.

Being in Canberra also gave us a chance to have a quick look around the capital city. Having recently become an Australian citizen this was almost an initiation for me and it was fascinating to discover some of this history of the city. I had always thought that the location of Canberra was decided as it is equidistant between Sydney and Melbourne. I was told whilst there, that Sydney insisted that it be in New South Wales and Melbourne insisted that it be at least 100 miles (160km) from Sydney. Hence the ACT was born. It was not much of a place when it was first created as this photo of old parliament house shows.

Sheep grazing in front of parliament and no shops for the first few years. Not the grandest of political postings and a long way short of the best job in the world…

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It had been annoying me for a while that Checkstyle would report a warning for code like

@Override
public void someOverriddenMethod() {
}

claiming that the { should be a new line. I duely submitted a patch for the LeftCurlyCheck check and was pleased to receive an e-mail on Sunday that it has been merged into the Checkstyle code base.

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