Monthly Archives: August 2010

probably wouldn’t recommend the Blackberry Tour as a GPS logger

I walked a local footpath carrying my (mostly) trusty Garmin GPSMap 60Csx, and a Blackberry Tour running bbTracker. Both had had a good satellite fix for about 10 minutes beforehand, and both were logging trackpoints every second. The smooth turquoise … Continue reading

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fallout from last night’s OSM 6th birthday Mappy Hour in Toronto

It was fun – there were geo-aware cupcakes! It is very easy to lose days in the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Richard’s OpenStreetMap for the Beginner tutorials are actually really really good. In a moment of geek worlds colliding, … Continue reading

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proj.4 init annoyances: it’s all apple’s fault

I was going to write a rant about how Ubuntu sets up proj.4 init files incorrectly, then I found that the problem actually lies with OS X. OS X is unusual for a Unix variant, as it uses a case-insensitive … Continue reading

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