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outer circle trailDid a trip around the outer circle bike trail in Melbourne. Nice but it crosses a lot of streets and at some points there is no trail and the signs telling you how to get to the next section are non existant.
Well know most of it is in osm, so mkgmap it and load it up onto your garmin gps.
Coordinates:Posted by petdr at Mon May 12 03:49:46 +0100 2008
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JOSM simplify way hint
If you use the simplify way plugin for josm. Then if you add the parameter simplify-way.max-error to the advanced preferences you can adjust how much the way is simplified.
I use 250 to simplify ways which are mountain bike and bush walking tracks.
Also despite the warning about restarting josm, this is not required for adjusting the value of this preference.
Posted by petdr at Sun May 04 12:28:12 +0100 2008Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 0 comments
Anakie gorge/Ted Errey nature trail
I finished the Ted Errey loop which follows the Anakie Gorge for a while before looping up into the hills and back down into the anakie gorge at the end.
Lovely walk and now completely mapped.
Always amazed to see that a few people had already done a lot of it previously.
Coordinates:Posted by petdr at Thu May 01 02:50:47 +0100 2008
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OSM and garmin
After discovering that SteveZ kindly converts the weekly planet.osm into garmin images <http://users.tpg.com.au/users/stevez/OSM/index.html> which can be uploaded to a garmin gps I couldn't wait to see my latest updates to OSM on my own little GPS.
One of the nice things about this is that you can easily see if a street has been mapped before or not, which makes it easy to add new streets to your route and add them to OSM when you get home.
Anyway after riding home from work and deciding to do a few more k's I noticed that that the end of Arden St hadn't been mapped accroding to my GPS. So I rode various loops around all the streets there to record them on my GPS.
Only to get home to find that they all existed. Seems like BlueMM had mapped them all in the last week.
Oh well at least it was fun riding around a new bit of Melbourne.
Coordinates:Posted by petdr at Wed Nov 21 06:28:38 +0000 2007
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