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
SOTM 2010 Dashboard Countdown
As in the past couple of years I’ve made a Mac OS X Dashboard widget to count down to the State of the Map conference 2010. SOTM 2010 Dashboard Widget and the Dashcode project source.
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
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
Installing ImageMagick on Snow Leopard (64-bit)
This blog post is only relevant if you are on Snow Leopard, have a 64-bit Intel Mac, and need to install ImageMagick. There are many Ruby on Rails projects out there that have some form image manipulation, thus use ImageMagick for that. Up until recently it was a real pain to install, with some huge… Continue reading Installing ImageMagick on Snow Leopard (64-bit)
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