OpenStreetMap
Finally did some street naming
Käyttäjä Biogenesis_ kirjotti tämän 25. Februarya 2009 kielellä EnglishA week ago I got off my arse and collected some street names. It's something I've been saying I'd do for a long time now.
At the time I didn't have a working P&S camera to use, so I marked waypoints with the GPS, left them as their default name (1,2,3,...,n) and jotted down on a notepad what the name of each waypoint was.
This method worked, but it was a little slow. It allowed collection at the rate of about 25 streets per hour, on a pushbike in the area linked to below.
So today I pulled out a P&S camera we had found, but didn't have a charger for. It uses a LI-40B or something, some Olympus Li-ion battery. Anyway, I do have a li-ion charger for a Canon battery, BP-511 or some such. So armed with that charger, 2 alligator clips and some heavy duty tape I rigged up a McGyver charger by taping everything in place on my desk. A photo is available if anyone's interested.
Armed with the new toy I finished mapping a chunk of Gateshead, Newcastle. The area is bordered by the Pacific Highway, Dudley Rd, Bulls Garden Road and Oakdale Road. A few streets North of Dudley Rd were also collected.
Time to train up for cycling endurance.
Discussion
Kommentti käyttäjältä Antwelm 1. March 2009 klo 12.50
How do you do those nice coord's things in the diary ?
Kommentti käyttäjältä Biogenesis_ 1. March 2009 klo 22.56
On your new diary entry page (osm.org/user/Antwelm/diary/new) there are boxes at the bottom for the coordinates, but next to that is a link called "use map". That link brings up the main OSM map to browse, double clicking on the map causes a marker to appear, and for the coordinates to be filled in :).