OpenStreetMap
A 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.
讨论
Antwelm 于 2009年03月 1日 12:50 的评论
How do you do those nice coord's things in the diary ?
Biogenesis_ 于 2009年03月 1日 22:56 的评论
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 :).