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
SOTM2009 Countdown Dashboard Widget
[For the Mac OS X users, who are going to this year’s State of the Map] I have updated the Dashboard widget I created last year for this years conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I’ve added a donate button on the back that takes you to http://donate.openstreetmap.org/. Dashboard Widget 163KB zip Project Source Code 880KB zip
New Year cycling
With the extra eating over Christmas, I’ve started out on my (evening) cycling again. On the 1st of January I headed out East and got to Rochester before getting on the train home. On the way near to Ebbsfleet International I found a rather interesting sign that I just had to take a picture of.… Continue reading New Year cycling
Weihnachten 2008 in Deutschland
This year for Christmas I went over to Germany to see some family I haven’t seen for 11 years. I really should learn some more German, so that I can speak with my grandmother, rather than needing my cousin, to translate for me. She learnt more English than I learnt German, though she needs to… Continue reading Weihnachten 2008 in Deutschland
Review OpenStreetMap South Bank Meetup
Last Wednesday there was an OpenStreetMap meetup in London on the South Bank. In all there was 15 people there. It was an interesting evening because there was many new faces, most of whom were developers using OpenStreetMap data in some shape or form. Does anyone have ideas for central London pubs that we could go… Continue reading Review OpenStreetMap South Bank Meetup
OpenStreetMap is at Linux Expo Live in Olympia, London
Linux Expo Live is an event being held in Olympia to showcase the latest software for Linux. This year the event has been combined with Mac Expo Live and Creative Pro. OpenStreetMap has a stand there, so drop by and have a chat if your in London today, tomorrow or Saturday 25th October 2008. More… Continue reading OpenStreetMap is at Linux Expo Live in Olympia, London
Bradford Mapping Party
On Saturday 27 September I done a day trip to Bradford for an OpenStreetMap mapping party. It was almost 5 hours of travel in each direction, but was worth having some face to face discussion with some of the other mappers and developers. I mapped most of sector 6, with the exception of the South… Continue reading Bradford Mapping Party
London Critical Mass September 2008
On Friday I headed along to this Months Critical Mass. It was very strange that the Police weren’t there at all to do the corking of the junctions, and hold back any frustrated drivers. The two usual off-duty bike paramedics were there. It took a while for the mass to get used to the idea… Continue reading London Critical Mass September 2008