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Posted by wonka68 on 22 November 2009 in English.

Spent today driving around Pennington in Leigh using my GPS to log tracks. Have spent the evening updating the tracks into JOSM.

I now have my eye on Leigh & Atherton, which are very sparse in areas. Anyone else planning to map this area?

The GPS I used is actually my new Palm Pre, which I've had for nearly 3 weeks. Unfortunately there was no OSM software at all when I first acquired it, despite it having built-in GPS. Although to be fair it's only been available in Europe for a few weeks.

I picked up some knowledge of the new Palm webOS development kit (Mojo), and wrote a pretty crude App that logs GPS points, and stores them in an internal database. I've submitted this App to a Pre homebrew website, but it's still awaiting publishing. As soon as it becomes available, I'll put some references to it in the OSM Wiki. I believe there is another App being developed by someone else that does the same thing, but additionally plots the traces on top of the OSM tiles. Watch this space...

Location: Land Side, Pennington, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, WN7 3RX, United Kingdom
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