Matarangi Beach returns

so the beach town is seeing growth again, after the primary developers went bust in 2007/8. A large amount of blank land between the shops and the ...

Mapping in the wilderness

Well, actually, Matarangi Beach is more of a holiday town and less of a wilderness. It even has 3G coverage. I'm mapping using my Nokia N900 phone...

On plotting points

Okay, the accuracy of my GPS unit is "reasonable". It can take a very long time to start locking and it occasionally gets weird along the way, but ...

First day on the site

Well, it's addictive. Now I need to find the right balance between obsession and overload (with the resulting spiral into apathy). And need to fi...