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I've noticed some indication of new road signs going up for signing tertiary and unclassified roads branching off the R430 between Abbeyleix and Carlow. The posts are there - now they just need to bolt on the actual signs!

Location: Garrintaggart, Blandsfort ED, The Municipal District of Portlaoise, County Laois, Leinster, Ireland

gps unit for sale on ibood

Posted by kenguest on 22 May 2009 in English.

I've nothing to do with ibood.com except that I'm a happy customer of theirs after having bought a lenovo laptop off them a year or so ago.

Thought I'd mention, for one day only [as it always is with iBood], they are selling a i-gotU GT-120 USB GPS Receiver Travel Logger for 40 euro - details at http://www.ibood.com/ie/en/product_specs.php.

Pertinent Details are:
Built-in SiRF StarIII low-power chipset
Programmable log interval: 1 sec - 60 minutes
Average acquisition time for cold start: < 60 sec., warm start: < 38 sec.

it might be the one piece of hardware you need to kickstart a more active approach to do openstreetmap mapping ;-)

mapping after the move

Posted by kenguest on 5 December 2008 in English.

Some of you may be aware that I have recently moved home from Dublin to Nenagh in County Tipperary. I'm going to use my daily commute in to the Limerick office (until I get broadband at home at which stage I'll WFH most of the time) to map the various routes betwixt and between.

Today I did a quick map/data-gathering of Plassey Village opposite University Limerick - footpaths not included as I was in the car at the time.