Category: Openstreetmap

An Idea

July 15, 2008 - Computers , Cool things , Geek , Internet , Linux , Openstreetmap , Twitter , Web - by admin - 2 Comments

It’s probably already been covered, but my 30 seconds of Google-Fu hasn’t turned anything up so bear with me… Take one OpenMoko phone,Â a geolocation service like Fire Eagle, an online celltower database such as CellDB, and some code to use those lovely d-bus bindings, and you could have a […]

Are we still terrorists?

February 22, 2008 - Buildings , Computers , Internet , Openstreetmap , Things that annoy Kyle , United Kingdom , Urban Exploration - by admin - No Comments

It would appear so… To: postmaster@cityoflondon.police.uk CC: Kenny.MacAskill.msp@scottish.parliament.uk, public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk Dear City of London Police, I see that we still have not had a response to this request for information. Please can you provide the answers that we seek, or suggest alternative routes to go down. If we are to be […]

Mappers are terrorists?

January 30, 2008 - Buildings , Computers , Internet , Openstreetmap , Things that annoy Kyle , United Kingdom , Urban Exploration - by admin - 6 Comments

A recent public email I wrote, after the worrying quotes published in http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Festival-is-key-terror-target.3723328.jp To: postmaster@cityoflondon.police.uk CC: gm39@st-andrews.ac.uk, Kenny.MacAskill.msp@scottish.parliament.uk, info@rcahms.gov.uk, public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk Hi, This is a public email, also available at http://lodge.glasgownet.com/mappers-are-terrorists/ I have also included some other recipients that may consider raising this issue at a higher level, may also be […]

KDE Geo Awareness

December 1, 2007 - Cool things , KDE , Openstreetmap - by admin - No Comments

Just discovered a lightning talk by Robert Scott on the future of the KDE geo aware desktop. He touches upon how applications will soon support location awareness, mapping, photography and suchlike. KDE4 should be interesting for those of us with a GPS receiver 🙂

Glasgow Openstreetmap

November 26, 2007 - Internet , Openstreetmap , Web - by admin - No Comments

For those that may find this sort of thing useful, I’ve started keeping a daily dump of the Glasgow area of the Openstreetmap database around here. Also in the OSM directory will be a weekly dump of the Glasgow area.