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Mapping the London Olympics
Posted on May 25, 2010 | No CommentsHere’s what the Olympic Park in East London currently looks like on OpenStreetMap, following my recent tour and some other visual guestimating from outside the boundary fence: The brown areas... -
National Library of Scotland Historical Maps
Posted on May 6, 2010 | No CommentsThe National Library of Scotland’s high-quality scans of historical Scottish mapping have been made available under an Attribution licence, which means they can now be used to trace features for... -
OpenStreetMap: 250,000 People
Posted on April 20, 2010 | No CommentsThe OpenStreetMap project, as of today, has over 250,000 registered users. It is fair to say that most of these will never edit the map, or have just edited it... -
![[Update - Nike Grid is back in late October! - and they sorted the map this time.] Nike are running an event next Friday/Saturday in inner London called Nike Grid....](http://blog.oobrien.com/files/2010/04/nikegridvp-115x115.png "Nike Grid – Nice Idea, Shame about the Attribution")
Nike Grid – Nice Idea, Shame about the Attribution
Posted on April 18, 2010 | 11 Comments[Update - Nike Grid is back in late October! - and they sorted the map this time.] Nike are running an event next Friday/Saturday in inner London called Nike Grid.... -
Minor Tweaks
Posted on January 13, 2010 | No CommentsSome small updates to OpenOrienteeringMap: Where trams run on or very near roads, they are now shown as being underneath the road. For the Street-O map, this means they are... -
Five Favourites in OpenOrienteeringMap
Posted on December 23, 2009 | 1 CommentTweet -
OpenOrienteeringMap
Posted on December 18, 2009 | 39 CommentsWith the OpenStreetMap spatial dataset of the world, and the excellent map rendering toolkit Mapnik, it’s quite straightforward to make theme-based maps, such as OpenCycleMap, OpenPisteMap, OpenHikingMap and OpenWhitewaterMap. All... -
Meath Bridge Opening
Posted on October 20, 2009 | 2 CommentsSo, the Regent’s Canal has a new bridge across it – the Meath Bridge, connecting Meath Gardens in Bethnal Green, to Mile End Park in Bow, opened this morning. It... -
Static Street-O Routemaps with OSM
Posted on October 14, 2009 | 3 CommentsHere’s a map showing my route around the streets of Chelsea and Battersea at last night’s SLOW street-race: My GPS didn’t acquire a good signal for the first couple of... -
Plinth-O
Posted on September 11, 2009 | No CommentsWell, that was interesting. Slightly hijacking the concept of “art” of the fourth plinth, but good fun anyway. I turned up, not planning to run, but ended up doing a...