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
Category: OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap Shortlinks
Shortlinks were introduced to OpenStreetMap at the end of June 2009, by Matt Amos, as a way to have a short url to get to a specific point on the map. It is a method to go from the code to a latitude, longitude and zoom. It also works in the reverse direction too. You… Continue reading OpenStreetMap Shortlinks
OpenStreetMap Job Search Alert
As part of my recent job search I setup a few job alerts. One of which was with the keyword OpenStreetMap on CWJobs. I wasn’t expecting there to be anything coming up. Out of the blue a job alert did appear, and it sounds rather interesting, though I have just started a new job at… Continue reading OpenStreetMap Job Search Alert
Edinburgh OpenStreetMap meetup on Tuesday
This Tuesday 8th December 2009, there will be another Edinburgh OpenStreetMap meetup. Unfortunately I won’t yet be able to enjoy another cycle out along the coast from Edinburgh to map some more of North Berwick, and return back to London on the Caledonian Sleeper. Not forgetting the significantly more people who came to the meetup… Continue reading Edinburgh OpenStreetMap meetup on Tuesday
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
New OpenStreetMap Tile Server unpacking
As part of the OpenStreetMap Server upgrades this month, I witnessed the unpacking of the new tile server on Friday, and have some photos for you. Matt carefully opening the box: Matt reading through the manual, that comes in the lovely case: It even comes with the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS release on CD: Here’s a… Continue reading New OpenStreetMap Tile Server unpacking
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
GLLUG Mapping Party
Yesterday I presented to the Greater London Linux User Group (GLLUG) how to edit the OpenStreetMap data, with a short field trip. Apart from running a little late, I think it went fairly well with some good participation from the audience. Things I’d do better the next time include: preparing the slides more, particularly the… Continue reading GLLUG Mapping Party
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