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New GPS / Other Updates

Posted by CatastropheAsh on 23 January 2009 in English.

I've been doing a few different things on the OSM front recently.

Most excitingly, I got my new Freedom Keychain GPS on Monday. I've been using it about the place for the past week and it's a really awesome purchase. It's even smaller than I'd imagined, and reasonably accurate too (though it really needs a clear view of the sky.) I did up a review of it on my blog which I encourage you to read if you're in the market for a new bluetooth unit.

I also got bored one afternoon and decided to trace some Yahoo imagery around Rockhampton. There's an awful lot of really high quality data already there, but a lot of areas are missing as well, so I hope my contribution is a at least a little useful for the locals working on the project.

I also went out with David Dean again today and we got some data around Kedron. I managed to lose my glasses at the beach a few days earlier so most of what I did was limited to wandering around vaguely and bludgeoning into spiderwebs. I'm a little disappointed for cancelling an outing three days earlier with Awesm for that reason, because it would have probably been all right anyway.

I've also in within the last week or so mapped out most of the Nudgee Beach area, as well as the Kedron Brook Wetlands bikeway which runs from there to Toombul. I've been meaning to do that for quite some time and while it's feeling good I've finally done it, there's another bikeway to the north that is taunting me now. I'll have to plan a bike trip another day.

Other than that I've been doing little things; it's addictive, Open Street Mapping. I can't get enough.

Location: Banyo, Greater Brisbane, Queensland, 4014, Australia
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