My logo design for the Open Street Map conference “State Of The Map” has been chosen as the favourite entry from the sea of other submissions (two). Apparently it’s going to be on tshirts and everything, how exciting! Unfortunately I can’t make the conference but I’ve recently been getting very enthused about Open Street Map. A couple of weeks ago I saw an Edlug talk by Chris Fleming and was inspired enough to go out and buy a GPS device. I got a Holux 236 pretty cheaply off ebay.com. It’s a tiny wee unit that has no display, but can communicate through USB or over bluetooth. So, I can run a java app on my mobile that connects to the Holux and receives the data stream automagically. It all Just Works, most of the time. Here is a random route that I’ve run through GPS Visualizer to get some KML that is then plotted on our old friend Google Maps.
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tags: openstreetmap, stateofthemap, gps
Pretty cool. I’ve been thinking about tracing a train journey via GPS, I always just passively sit on a train, without actually knowing the geography of the journey.
by Adam B - July 3rd, 2007 @ 9:08 pmYeah, railway lines can take quite different routes from the road network. Oh yeah, you might want to check this out:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_United_Kingdom_Railways
by olly - July 3rd, 2007 @ 10:14 pm