Harry Wood's diary
Mapping<->IKEAMy girlfriend and I struck another deal
Just kidding. IKEA shopping is actually quite entertaining too. But it was great to get out and do some real mapping (unnamed streets yay!) in the White Hart Lane area, although I got a bit bogged down in POI mapping along High Road.
Seems we need to do this stuff at the weekends now. It's just getting way too dark for after work mapping. ....Oh go on then. Let's do one more.
The FINAL London mapping evening of 2009 Tomorrow (Wednesday) evening in Farringdon. The area looks like it could do with a shiney new blue marker on my mapping parties map. Now maybe we haven't gone there previously because it's already mapped. It is very central, but looks can be deceiving. Checking against Yahoo imagery I spotted a few wonky streets and even something looking vaguely like a missing street! If you fancy it, grab a slice of the cake and take a look at Yahoo! imagery beforehand to check for patches which might need work. Personally I'm probably going to do a bit of building outlines sketching too, but each to their own. No doubt some people will just go to the pub!
Coordinates:Posted by Harry Wood at Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:53:31 +0000 in English (English)
Comment from Paul Johnson at Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:54:20 +0000
They put the Portland IKEA store conveniently next to the Airport. Problem: It's on the ONLY road the public is allowed to use to access the airport. Another problem: It sits immediately adjacent to one of just two Columbia River crossings for a good 50+ miles either direction (and the other local crossing is a drawbridge freeway).
I used to be a truck driver with frequent runs in and out of the airport. I really, really hated hearing my dispatcher spot my GPS dot on his map at the airport because it gave me a 50/50 on getting a call to pick something up at the IKEA dock.
Which brings me to the IKEA docks. IKEA supplies family parking for a reason, right next to the door so families with kids do not have to use the dock, potentially putting them in harm's way by letting them play where trucks are backing up all day long.
So I looked up a backup buzzer to my truck (it was just slightly too small for it to be required). And I hooked the backup buzzer to a rear-facing railway horn. Yes: You could hear me back up from (quite literally) two miles away. It would make everyone run holding their ears and children to run away crying. It was the perfect backup beeper for my purpose: It kept people from walking behind me.
