Archive for March, 2010

  • Here’s a brilliantly produced video showing what parkrun is all about. It’s shot on location in (I think) Bushy Park in south-west London. Plenty of shots of the verdant park...

    Parkrun – The Video

    Posted on March 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Here’s a brilliantly produced video showing what parkrun is all about. It’s shot on location in (I think) Bushy Park in south-west London. Plenty of shots of the verdant park...

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  • I gave a talk on OpenOrienteeringMap at an (un)conference today – the slides are on my research blog. Tweet

    OOM Presentation

    Posted on March 13, 2010 | No Comments
    I gave a talk on OpenOrienteeringMap at an (un)conference today – the slides are on my research blog. Tweet

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  • One problem which my club has come across when assembling Street-O maps using OpenOrienteeringMap is where control labels clash with other features on the map – they may obscure important...

    OOM Undocumented Feature – Rotating Control Labels

    Posted on March 4, 2010 | No Comments
    One problem which my club has come across when assembling Street-O maps using OpenOrienteeringMap is where control labels clash with other features on the map – they may obscure important...

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  • OpenOrienteeringMap now updates in near-real-time from the OpenOrienteeringMap database. It does what’s called “minutely” updates, although the actual time-lag from updating something in OpenStreetMap (say, using Potlatch), to it appearing...

    OOM Live-Updating

    Posted on March 3, 2010 | 7 Comments
    OpenOrienteeringMap now updates in near-real-time from the OpenOrienteeringMap database. It does what’s called “minutely” updates, although the actual time-lag from updating something in OpenStreetMap (say, using Potlatch), to it appearing...

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  • OpenOrienteeringMap now has a map builder, that will create a PDF map of any area, optionally with score-course orienteering controls on it, for you to print out and run on....

    OOM Map Builder

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | 1 Comment
    OpenOrienteeringMap now has a map builder, that will create a PDF map of any area, optionally with score-course orienteering controls on it, for you to print out and run on....

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  • One day last February, I stepped out of work and onto a sleeper train up to the Scottish Highlands with a friend, did a day’s hillwalking from Corrour, an outstandingly...

    A Day in the Mountains

    Posted on March 1, 2010 | 1 Comment
    One day last February, I stepped out of work and onto a sleeper train up to the Scottish Highlands with a friend, did a day’s hillwalking from Corrour, an outstandingly...

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