Archive for February, 2008
Open Street Map: micro-mapping party
We held our first WYLUG(ish) Open Street Map micro-mapping event on Sunday and it went well. Six of us – me, John, Paul, Tim, Simon and Rob – went out mapping and then we went back to Dave’s afterwards to start turning the traces into maps. It was the first OSM event I’ve organised but [...]
Open Street Mapping
After an inspiring WYLUG talk about OpenStreetMap last Monday, John and I have decided to start mapping. John hacked our TomTom so it draws traces of our routes and we took a first test drive with it last night. We drove around some of Armley’s main roads – most of it was already covered on [...]
Sunset in Sunny Southport
We took a trip to Southport today for a day out and to see my mum’n’dad – and we got a lovely day for it for a change – sunny, crisp and clear. We bought some books (including a cool photo one on human dissection), wandered around the town for a bit and ate some [...]