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Tulse Hill mapping meet

Posted by Breezer on 21 August 2008 in English.

My first time to meet anyone else into osm, and I didn't do a huge amount of mapping - ended up doing about as much on the way down from the city through Brixton as I did while there, and started some on the way home ~11pm but my phone battery died (luckily I had an idea where I was before, or I'd have been cycling round lost for too many hrs - wing and a prayer got me home eventually). Apologies to smsm1 for keeping him so late at the end (I did warn you I also tended to be among the last to leave anywhere!).

Err... my notes failed me for one bit though, and JOSM isn't behaving with the layers like it was the last couple of times (its a mystery, really it is.. black magic!). Which road is Peckford Place off the A204? There are some unmarked ones but I couldn't figure it out from what I wrote. Was going to mark Max Roach Park down too, off to the East about half-way down I think.

Discovered TrackMyLocation Java app for phones though thanks to err.. Stephen is it?! Seriously configurable (more so than WhereAmiI+ I think even, but more of a layered options menu to do it - good but also complex to find things in as a newbie to it). Yet to try getting maps onto it, so was testing out a black background and just the shiny blue trace.

That's all... bedtime... Seriously... now...

Location: West Dulwich, Tulse Hill, London Borough of Lambeth, London, Greater London, England, SE21 8HW, United Kingdom

Discussion

Comment from smsm1 on 21 August 2008 at 19:58

It's actually TrackMyJourney.

Comment from Breezer on 22 August 2008 at 03:04

Yeah, I discovered after I found the site today - just misremembered it. I should have remembered from it being "tmJ" not "tmL" for the app. name in my launcher.

Yet to get any maps on it; generated a few traces and waypoints though.

Oh, did some exploring of the unnamed roads to the East of Park Lane tonight on the way back from an evening in a pub.

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