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Upcoming pizza meetup for Brisbane, Australia
I have arranged a pizza meetup for Friday 3 July at the Pizza Caffe at UQ after work. Come and meet fellow OpenStreetMappers and maybe do a little micro-mapping of the UQ campus if you're up to it.
Details here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Brisbane/Mapping_Parties/2009-07
Coordinates:Posted by David Dean at Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:34:59 +0000 in English (English)
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The Gap is done
check the minutely updated map to see it now -> http://matt.sandbox.cloudmade.com/?zoom=14&lat=-27.44301&lon=152.94608&layers=B0
Coordinates:Posted by David Dean at Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:46:16 +0000 in English (English)
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I'm in the top 50!
Well, apparently I'm in the top 50 (of all time?) of OSM users for uploads of GPS data: http://www.openstreetmap.org/stats/data_stats.html .
That's nuts. I don't even track half of my car/bike/walking trips. You know what this really means? It means the *rest of you* aren't uploading enough GPS data. :)
So, go on, get to work! Trace *all* your trips. Multiple traces on the same road are useful for statistic analysis and traffic modelling, so you can't use that as an excuse either. :)
Posted by David Dean at Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:36:04 +0000 in English (English)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 7 comments
Upcoming (daytime) Brisbane Mapping Party
If there are any Brisbane locals here, please consider attending the third Brisbane mapping party which will be held on Saturday the 7th of February. Unlike the previous two mapping parties, this one will be held in the daylight (whoa!) and will be a little more ambitious as we have more time to work with.
There will be a lunch and dinner social event as well to meet up with fellow Brisbane mappers. More details are available at the wiki page.
Coordinates:Posted by David Dean at Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:04:23 +0000 in English (English)
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Uploaded my changes from New Farm Mapping Evening
I've just finished uploading my changes from the first Brisbane Mapping Evening. I got to meet a few more Brisbane mappers, and got some mapping done too!
Coordinates:Posted by David Dean at Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:32:51 +0000 in English (English)
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Flickr using OSM in Australia!
Flickr have starting using OSM data for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra. Details here: http://blog.flickr.net/en/2008/09/29/australian-firsts-and-more-mappy-goodness/
Here's what Brisbane looks like: http://www.flickr.com/map?&fLat=-27.4753&fLon=153.0262&zl=3
Coordinates:Posted by David Dean at Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:55:23 +0000 in English (English)
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Brisbane Mapping Marathon is soon!
Just a quick notice to let everybody know that the Brisbane Mapping Marathon at New Farm will be happening in less than two weeks! Should be fun. Details on the wiki page. The more the merrier.
Coordinates:Posted by David Dean at Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:54:56 +0000 in English (English)
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We are 69% of the way there!
In a completely unscientific calculation, if you take the total kilometres of ways at the end of this page and divide it by the estimated kilometres of roadways at the CIA Factbook, you find out that we are 69.28% complete worldwide, at least as far as roadways go!
Posted by David Dean at Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:54:50 +0000 in English (English)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 4 comments
Gosmoring around home
I finally got Gosmore to work on my Eten M500 Pocket PC phone (with a bluetooth GPS). So to celebrate I went for a little walk and added some bus-stops I had previously missed.
Work quite nicely actually, although the osm files created by gosmore would be better if they were created by date and time like the gpx files. The other main issue was that Gosmore's dialogs seemed to be based on a landscape style screen, whereas my phone is portrait, but I could handle most things anyway.
Coordinates:Posted by David Dean at Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:52:33 +0000 in English (English)
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Toohey Forest - Mayne Estate
Got some more bushwalking trails done this morning with awesm. Should appear on osmarender soonish.
Coordinates:Posted by David Dean at Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:27:06 +0000 in English (English)
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Raven Street Reserve and Milne Hill Quarry Park
I gave awesm's edits a look over and added some details missed from our Bushwalk on Monday.
Coordinates:Posted by David Dean at Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:06:27 +0000 in English (English)
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Queensland Government urges Google Maps to catch up
With thanks to awesm: http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24028848-15318,00.html
Maybe we should contact the minister in question (Paul Lucas) and ask him if he wants to help OSM get Brisbane up-to-date. I'm sure the state government has some data that would be useful.
I'm not exactly sure how to start going about doing that though? Any ideas?
The only contact I've found for Paul Lucas so far is (07) 3396 0066, but a letter outlining OSM, and how other governments have made use of it might be a better approach.
Posted by David Dean at Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:32:46 +0000 in English (English)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 2 comments
Paddington
Did some more surveying in Paddington recently.
Coordinates:Posted by David Dean at Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:21:01 +0000 in English (English)
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Brisbane forest park
I'm going to try and knock off more of Brisbane Forest Park today. It's probably going to take an hour or so just to walk to a unmapped area first!
Coordinates:Posted by David Dean at Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:53:40 +0000 in English (English)
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Missing street names in Petrie Terrace
I fixed up a few missing street names and other minor details in the Petrie Terrace area.
Coordinates:Posted by David Dean at Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:31:02 +0000 in English (English)
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Surveying in Aspley
Did some surveying in Aspley while waiting for Zupps to finish servicing my car.
Coordinates:Posted by David Dean at Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:34:03 +0000 in English (English)
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Enoggera
Finally got around to adding the roads to the map from last Thursday's walk.
Coordinates:Posted by David Dean at Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:47:34 +0000 in English (English)
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Dorrington and Alderly Heights
I did some more walking last night and got a whole bunch of road names and the like around the Eastern side of Enoggera Barracks. I've asked for a osmarender refresh there on infromation freeway so they should appear in that layer soon if it works.
Coordinates:Posted by David Dean at Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:00:20 +0000 in English (English)
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Alderly Heights
I went for a night-time stroll to Alderly Heights last night and got a whole bunch of street names, bus-stops, parks and other junk added to the map. I'm starting to run out of places within walking distance of home, which is a pity cause I like walking.
Coordinates:Posted by David Dean at Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:31:45 +0000 in English (English)
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OpenStreetBugs - Tungan Bypass
I added my first OpenStreetBug today. Can someone down in the NSW-QLD border region fix it please? :) [ http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/?lon=153.45668792224194&lat=-28.21986116579142&z=11 ]
Coordinates:Posted by David Dean at Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:04:51 +0000 in English (English)
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