About to dock in Calais., a photo by smsm1 on Flickr. About to dock in Calais.
Category: Cycling
Bulk loading data into OpenStreetMap
Some of you who were at WhereCampUK, Nottingham in November 2010, may recognise the discussion in this blog post as it is based on my talk there. Since the early days of OpenStreetMap, people have been bulk importing data into the database. There have been various issues with many of the previous import methods, which… Continue reading Bulk loading data into OpenStreetMap
Cycling: Calais to Oostende and back
I recently headed over to France for another weekend cycling trip. This time I stayed the night in Oostende, Belgium, so that I could cover more distance in the trip on the continent. This time I headed over using SeaFrance instead of P&O since they were significantly cheaper when returning the following day, rather than… Continue reading Cycling: Calais to Oostende and back
Cycling: London to Dover overnight
With the English bank holiday weekend (Scotland has the August bank holiday on the first Monday instead of the last), I thought that I would go for one of my longer cycle rides and see if I could beat my previous record of 150 miles. On the Saturday morning I packed the 4.5 litre of… Continue reading Cycling: London to Dover overnight
Cycling: Car bonnet: Half a year on
You may remember some of my tweets from the end of last year from an accident on my way home from work. I was cycling past Peckham Rye Park along the London Cycle Route 22 as I was usually doing, a motorist decided to come out of a side road even so he didn’t have… Continue reading Cycling: Car bonnet: Half a year on
Cycling: Milton Keynes – Watford
Last Saturday I took a train from Selhurst to Milton Keynes and started cycling back home. (At the moment you can get 15% off off-peak Southern tickets when you buy them at least 2 hours before travel, online.) I’d been thinking about doing that cycle since the Milton Keynes Mapping Party back in May last… Continue reading Cycling: Milton Keynes – Watford
A week in Dumfries
At the start of October I took a week’s holiday up north in Dumfries in the run up to the Dumfries Mapping Party. It was a great week of mostly cycling, sightseeing and ended with a mapping party, held in the local leisure centre, DG One, which has some council meeting rooms. Heading out I… Continue reading A week in Dumfries
Bristol – Newbury Cycle ride
Last Sunday (30/8/09) Simon Hewison and myself took the first train from London Paddington to Bristol at the fairly early time of 8am considering that we had to cycle across London first. We had purchased advanced fare tickets which were about a third of the price of the walk up fares. Full trace of the… Continue reading Bristol – Newbury Cycle ride
The Crap-O-Surface Detector
Even in this day and age, the roads the general public cycle on are riddled with potholes, speed humps falling over themselves, or general unevenness around man hole covers and drains. I’m fed up with having to look at the road in front of me for these bicycle damaging unevenness and potholes instead of at… Continue reading The Crap-O-Surface Detector
Cycling: London to Dover via Margate and Ramsgate
Yesterday (Saturday) I done one of my rather large February cycles. I didn’t go quite as far as last year’s 150 mile cycle, though I still done more than the 70-100 miles I was anticipating doing. In total it was about 115 miles (the last 4 miles were from Bromley South station home). The total… Continue reading Cycling: London to Dover via Margate and Ramsgate